Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/08/03/15:38:11
On Aug 3, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:07 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 2, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
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>>> It would be nice if find was somehow able to find everything in the dir at
>>> least, at least as an option. Lots of editors fail at this and its annoying.
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>> I often find myself typing things like “cat Video.*.sch | grep refdes=C | sort” to a shell. There are probably a thousand such useful shell one-liners involvi
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> Me too. And its annoying. Note that what you're doing here is just a simple
> search. That's what you want most of the time, so it's worth incorporating
> it as a feature. When using vim, do you do the above, or do you /whatever?
That’s not a simple search that you can do with /whatever. Select a specific subset of files, search, and sort results.
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>> ng grep, cat, sort, wc, and uniq on geda-gaf files. A million if you throw in sed and awk. Hurray for a simple file format!
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> I think no one is proposing changing the format, the question is whether some
> form of global search is worth having in gschem.
Simple, like /whatever, is fine. It’s when it becomes encumbered with too many “smarts” that it gets to be more confusing than it’s worth.
> I would say definitely yes,
> provided its graceful enough that it can work for search or just navigation.
>
> Britton
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John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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