>>>>> "Ronald" == Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ronald> Reuben Thomas writes:
| After some weeks' use of LyX, I find that my biggest
| annoyance is with Find and Replace. There are three problems:
| 1. No incremental search 2. No regular expressions 3. You
| can't seem to express characters you can't type on the
| keyboard, so you can't search for ellipsis (\dots) or bits of
| math as you can in a text editor.
Ronald> I hate to send a me-too, especially after our mailboxes have
Ronald> been barraged by bogus email, but I second these suggestions
Ronald> as among the most important `wants' in LyX. As much as I like
Ronald> LyX, I find that I constantly have to go over to xemacs to do
Ronald> any useful search operations. Is it possible to borrow some
Ronald> of the superb incremental and regular expression search code
Ronald> from emacs/xemacs for LyX?
Yes, the search/replace is poor currently. Adding incremental search
should be easy. Regular expressions are IMO doable. What we really
need is a way to search/replace fonts, special cahracters, etc. And a
way to act on math insets, for example. It does not seem to me that it
will be easy, unfortunately.
JMarc
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