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Message #22060
Re: [RFC] Wildcard and/or regex support in the component chooser
No, and I'm highly skeptical it'll achieve what I'm looking for. Can you
give an example of what you mean? How do I search for "ATXMEGA*D3" and
get "ATXMEGA64D3", "ATXMEGA128D3", "ATXMEGA256D3", etc to come up?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Jon Evans wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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.)
> >
> > --
> > Chris
> >
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