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Re: [RFC] Wildcard and/or regex support in the component chooser

 

More and more modern text editing software is moving to fuzzy string
matching rather than explicitly requiring users to put in wildcards when
doing searches for filenames, code intelligence searches (i.e. match
function / class names etc).  Have you considered that as an option?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Would everyone be okay with me patching the eeschema component chooser
> to support wildcards or regexes? And if yes, what's the preference -
> simple *? wildcards, regexes, or selectable in preferences? (Plan is to
> make it totally disableable [is that a word? :] in prefs anyway.)
>
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> Chris
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