[Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve Thunar.

[Erik Harrison]

On 1/30/06, Ori Bernstein <rand_chars at rogers.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:55:14 +0100, Benedikt Meurer
> <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> said:
>
> > > 3/ What do you think of implementing something like 'find as you type'
> > > like in Firefox ? This could be very useful to quickly find a file or a
> > > folder.
> >
> > The detailed list view already support this. ExoIconView/ThunarIconView
> > support is on the way (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359).
>
> Personally, the biggest annoyance with Thunar is this support -- I think it
> should at least search for substrings, if not match regexes.
>
> I think matching regexes would be the best option -- it can be treated as a
> simple substring search, but it can also (surprise) handle searching by regex.

Edit->Select by Pattern, or Ctrl+S

Or is this not sufficient?

The only problem I have with find as you type as supported in detail
view is that there isn't a way to show the next match.

>
> Often when looking for a file, I remember a part of the name, but this part
> doesn't always start at the 0th character, so this would be a useful feature
> for me.
>
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