Re: Find Bar

I don't know that regular expressions are a good idea for a "quick"
find bar. I'm not strongly opposed though.
The one thing that annoys me about the FF find bar is that there is no
"whole word" option.
What does everyone think of the ability to replace with this bar? At
least 50% of the time when I "find" in a word processor, it's to
replace.

Thanks for picking this up. Good luck.

Bobby

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Alexander Haro <amduser29@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am a student interested in improving the find/replace dialog of
> AbiWord for the gsoc program. I was wondering what the developers of
> AbiWord thought would be useful features to have implemented for this
> project. I understand that AbiWord is designed for 'non-tech' people,
> but I think it is important to hear the input of the developers as
> well. What I am currently imagining is a find bar that is very
> similar to Firefox. It would include a find as you type feature much
> like the typeaheadfind component of Firefox. I also plan to add
> regular expressions (which could be turned on and off) similar to
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6534.
>
> Look forward to hearing back from the list! I can also be contacted by
> IRC nick amduser.
>
> Alex
>
Received on Thu Mar 27 16:50:47 2008