Re: [PATCH] New incarnation of filtering mode patch

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 13:40 +0000, Daniel Pörsch wrote:
> Alexander Larsson <alexl <at> redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm not sure. I haven't had time to look at the beagle integration patch
> > from the nautilus-search branch, but thats a form of search too that has
> > to be taken into account. I think with the new typeahead search model
> > we're already pretty close to something like your patch. 
> 
> A use-case the typeahead search model can not cover is when I have a lot of
> files in a directory and want to work with a set of them which are identical in
> some part of the filename. I had for example a direcotry with dump files where
> always five belonged together. Unfortunately the part in the filename which
> grouped them was in the middle (*-<number>.dmp). Here the filtering patch would
> have been great and typeahead didn't helped me!

Yeah, there are not zero usecases for it, but there are less unique
usecases for it.

> > Maybe if we
> > make that not only match on the beginning of the file it would be useful
> > enough for find-in-directory, while larger searches could be done with
> > the nautilus-search stuff.
> 
> Besides the filtering patch, making typeahead not only at the beginning would be
> great!

We would probably have to change gtk+ though, since the listview
typeahead is just the standard gtk one.

> > Anyway, I don't want to comment too much before I've taken a better look
> > at the nautilus-search branch. (Which I hope to do soon.)
> 
> Hmm, but Beagle is Mono and I thought Mono won't be used by RedHat?!

The search engine is pluggable, so you could use any indexer. And I will
make sure there will at the very least be a simple non-indexing backend
to fall back to.

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