On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:25:04PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Tue 20 Jun 06, 11:09 AM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:46:05AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > I find the FF find feature to be weaker than what I've come to expect from > > > Unix tools. For example, it would be really nice to specify regex type > > > syntax, like > > > > > > ^foo > > > > > > to find the substring "foo" abutted against the left margin. > > But I guess I was thinking more in lines of this: > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/ > > Doing a search for the Event class is sheer misery. It pretty much > necessitates taking my hand off the keyboard and onto the mouse.
Firefox should have a "find whole word" checkbox or something like that to make sure that it doesn't find subwords (e.g. ActionEventListener) that match the pattern. Konqueror has regex support, although the ^ and $ metacharacters didn't seem to work for me, at least in the context we were discussing. Nevertheless, dots and character classes work, and you can combine it with the "find whole word" option. Also, KDE has a "regular expression builder" dialog/program that can help you to build regexps. I'm not sure how much easier it makes things though. --Ken -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
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