Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW ha scritto:
I'd think that backporting a few of those features
to the normal find dialog/bar is not a major task.
I mean, the search bar can use the same find&replace backend, right ?
If you mean using the Advanced F&R backend, I think it may be used as
well, for a searchbar a'la firefox. In the long term, I hope we can
avoid duplication of backend-side functionality.
The only remark I have is that we should have a way to "parallelize" the
searching facility while the user is entering stuff inside the text, so
the search facility should be made so as to be "incremental": each time
the LFUN is dispatched it goes some steps further, then returns, then it
is dispatched again, etc.....
Such an incremental facility would allow for:
-) avoiding GUI freeze while searching (smth. very undesirable and
annoying for the user)
-) implementing a "stop" button
-) keeping searching also after a match has been found and selected,
e.g., in order to highlight all the visible matches like suggested in
enhancement request #6145.
T.
