[Geany-devel] Find in files - Re: Patches required by gproject

[Lex Trotman]

On 23 June 2010 02:54, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:48:29 +0100
> Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> > To me it looks much easier to use what's already present in grep right
>> > now and if this isn't satisfactory, it could be reimplemented the way
>> > you propose in the future. In addition if no patterns are specified,
>> > geany will behave the same way it did until now so there is a sane
>> > fallback solution for people with very old grep.
>>
>> Let's use --include then if the user ticks a checkbox. That way a
>> non-gnu system will still be able to do non-recursive all files search.
>
> BTW I've just added a dummy Files checkbox and combobox to the dialog in
> SVN, and will continue tomorrow (unless anyone objects).


I think this is a good solution, it uses grep's capabilities if
available and still does useful things if grep is brain dead

Cheers
Lex

>
> Regards,
> Nick
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