Search in Lister

[MVV]

I think an option to search whole file or to search also from beginning to current position would be great because sometimes it's really useful.

[Balderstrom]

Definitely, an option to do so, or a checkbox on the dialog.

Opera's text-search automatically wraps around, and if it's a long page and/or if you don't pay very close attention to the scroll bar position it can be difficult to tell that it has even started over. It will never finish, continually looping back to the beginning.

[ado]

I would think,

"Foobar not found! Continue search from Beginning?"
[OK] [Cancel]

I dont think it even needs to be an option, instead of just popping up with Not found, give the option to research from beginning - problem solved.

Yup, I fully agree with this proposal, it would be very useful. For sure not automatically search from beginning if not found (of from the end if searching backwards)

ado

[ghisler(Author)]

I have indeed considered such anautomatic wraparound, but I need a method to tell the user that such a wraparound occurs, so he doesn't find the same line again and again. Some programming tools show this by a colored status bar, but Lister doesn't have any...

[StatusQuo]

2ghisler(Author)

Some programming tools show this by a colored status bar

...which is quite hard to recognize, unless you look at it after every found position. A Messagebox is far more convenient IMO.

[Hacker]

Christian,

I need a method to tell the user that such a wraparound occurs

The percentage in the upper right-hand corner could blink twice or so.

Roman

[Clo]

2Hacker

Hello Roman !

The percentage in the upper right-hand corner could blink twice or so.

• Clever, but I think that it could be overlooked…
- Maybe a menu pop-up shown only in Text modes (or else, greyed out) like :
<Looped Search>
having a single item :
• Enable¦Disable looped Search
with which no tick-box is needed in the dialogue, thus we'ld kill two birds with the same stone…

 KR
Claude
Clo