Re: Comp. Window

[Bruno Pires Marinho <bapm camoes rnl ist utl pt>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, David Pickens wrote:

> I forgot to write a note when I put it in, but Pawel's code to clean up
> the Comp. Window has been committed --
> 
> Personally, I'm thrilled that you can now tab right down into the Text
> widget rather than getting stuck at the attachment window.  :)
> 
> 
> I'm not quite sure where we stand after the filtering 'debate' (other than
> that we're all more clear about the acronyms involved!), but what I'd like
> to do unless someone has any objection (or, unless someone's begun) is to
> add search capability to balsa -- the easiest implementation would
> present someone with a 'find' box, and allow them to jump to the first
> message in the current mailbox that fits the regex (with a find next
> option).  Clear, though, this isn't the best of all possible solutions.
> Ideally, I think, we'd want the user to view an index of the found
> messages from different mailboxes, and to open them directly from that
> index.  This is much more detailed and would probably not surface for
> general use any time soon.  So, my question is similar to Peter's:  do you
> want a quick-and-dirty first-generation search function that would allow
> you to search through the messages in the current mailbox using either
> perl or 'standard' regexes, with the option of more mature search at some
> point, or would you rather wait for the final version?

In my opinion we can have this feature even if it is really simple it
might be really usefull and if you don't take too mutch time coding it I
think we should have a quick-and-dirty first-generation search function.

> (My thought at this point is that the 'standard' regex would allow * for
> any number of unknown characters and ? for one unknown character, and that
> I would translate this to a perl regex internally -- the user would select
> between perl, standard regex, and basic string comparison using a
> radio-box.)
> 
> In any case, the underlying functions might provide some of the necessary
> infrastructure for filtering if we choose to add this to balsa.  (Or, at
> least, I would attempt to write them in such a way that they could be used
> for either.)
> 
> David
> 

                                               Bruno Pires Marinho
                                      http://camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~bapm/