Backward search in the internal viewer

Andrew V. Samoilov kai at cmail.ru
Wed Oct 23 15:18:14 UTC 2002


Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>this feature is documented, but I don't know was this one implemented 
>>before 4.1.  I implemented it for normal and hex search in 2000,
>>but it was rejected because it had not regular search.
>>
>>I have no ideas how to implement this search for ^[a-b], ^[^c-G\]\] and 
>>^(bif|foo)? cases without much efforts.
> 
> 
> I didn't realize at that time that regex search backwards is hard.  
> Please resend your patch or just apply it if you are certain that it's OK.
> I remember it also included case sensitive support.  That would be really

No, it was patch to implement case insensitive context search in "Find 
file".  But I plan to implement case sensitive search support for viewer.

> great.  New users are not supposed to know if the search in the viewer is
> case sensitive or not.



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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov






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