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Re: PCBNew Find and "match words"

 

Oh cool.  I’ll look into it….

> On 26 Jul 2019, at 14:57, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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