On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:13:19 +1000 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
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- Selecting the text makes it work like normal find and
Select the entire line?.. FIF / Find usage operate on lines, not words.
Find usage knows the character position and size of the match, it just has to save it to be selected
Yes... My mistake.
FIF will have to ask grep to mark the match(s) on the line and parse them for character positions to be selected
That can be a bit tricky. -o -b returns what we need, but the normal output is be lost, while --color=always will do, but the parsing is a bit more complex, and we should invoke grep with a GREP_COLORS prefix. Both assume GNU grep, of course.
What I meant is that focusing the window is not much use if the cursor position is going to be start of line, since I have to click in the window anyway to position the cursor (unless it happens that I want something close to the start). [...]
I get it now. FIF / Find Usage will certainly be better with line and column positioning, including Enter / double-click. Maybe implement that for the Compiler tab first? Looks easy, once I find where is the default error_regex. Huh.