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Advsearch

Notes and bugs with AdvSearch branch

Intro

Video about basic usage of the introduced feature:

• Basic usage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjMVvn7d3M
• Regular Expressions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqwwhu4VkGw
• Searching for paragraph or character styles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MR_O1ctIAY

The development goes in a separate branch - svn path is: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/advsearch. Commits timeline can be seen here. Now it has been integrated into trunk.

Possible Enhancements

The "Ignore Format" checkbox should allow for a finer control of what you want to consider or ignore:

• character faces, like emphasized or italics
• text styles, like sections and paragraphs
• math environments, e.g., distinguishing between $...$ and \[...\] or not
• tables
• what else ?

Longstanding issues

• Bug 1262 Search & Replace: "wrap" option
• Bug 2548 Wishlist: limit find/replace to selected text
• Bug 2674 Find and replace should restore initial cursor position
• Bug 3696 Find/replace to preserve capitalisation

Bugs

• search cursor is wrongly kept on the tab of last-find buffer regardless change in tabbar. after closing such a buffer we even get crash.
• when typing C-S-f, focus does not go automatically to new find lyx-area, so you need either a mouse-click, or a tab, or a double alt-tab
• sometimes it crashes on exit if advsearch feature was activated
• search in math text is very slow, so we neeed clock mouse cursor when search is in progress
• launch lyx, open userguide, ctrl+shift+f, now open outliner through menu -> crash

Open math manual:

1. window is wrongly scrolled after find next of A-B - text found is one line above the visible screen.

2. A-B is found even in text mode of document //this is not bug, but needs documentation

3. instant preview works even inside finder text area.

Before merging

• merge docs into guides
• switch off lyxerrs [Currently all lyxerrs have been confined within LYXERR(Debug::DEBUG, ...)]

Categories

Category: Development, LyX_2_0