On 1 Mar 2013, at 1:39, Benny Kj?r Nielsen wrote:
> On 28 Feb 2013, at 23:39, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > >> At 11:51 +0100 2/28/13, Andre Kaltenbacher wrote: >> >>> On 28 Feb 2013, at 11:47, Mateusz Parzonka wrote: >>> >>>> It is possible, although a bit hidden. >>>> Select menu: Edit > Find > Use as default search >>> >>> I'm so happy now. This was very annoying - not to know about it :) >> >> Same here-- in fact, this solves an irritation I hadn't quite >> realized I had. > > The user is also unlikely to find this even though it is in the Find > menu. It's a non-standard item in a standard menu which is easily > over-looked. Not sure what to do about it other than writing about it > in the unwritten FAQ. (The menu item was a stop-gap solution until I > had time to improve the interface for quick searches, but that is > still not going to happen soon.) > > Note that one can setup multiple search conditions (such as from, to, > common, ?) since any conditions with empty text fields are ignored > when searching. Kind of a hack, but it can be useful if you have more > than one favorite kind of search. > Thanks Benny, this is incredibly powerful. Once configured with 3-4 conditions, I think this should be enough for most queries one can come up with. And then you just fly through your incremental search by tabbing through the fields. Killer feature, really. -- Mateusz
