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Re: PCBNew Find and "match words"

 

I implemented regular expression search method in EDA_ITEM but I never
finished hooking everything up at the UI level.  So unless someone
removed it, it should still be there.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 7/26/19 3:41 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> I went with something similar to Seth’s proposal, only based on Eeschema’s find (so no regular expressions yet).
> 
> Most of the workings are down in EDA_ITEM, so if we add regex matching we’ll get it in both Eeschema and Pcbnew.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
>> On 26 Jul 2019, at 13:11, Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2019-07-26 14:39, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> PCBNew’s current Find does a match against the whole string.  I think
>>> it would be more intuitive with a ‘*’ in front and back of the search
>>> string (so that it finds partial matches).
>>> Any other opinions?
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>> Hi Jeff-
>>
>> Here's a mockup of something I was poking at a while ago.  Different processing for different purposes.  As long as we remember the checkboxes between uses, people's search preferences are allowed/respected.
>>
>> -Seth<FindWindow.png>
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