GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 47713
"glob" and "regexp" aren't familar to non-unixy people
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
1) Start Nautilus 2) Click on the "Find" button in the toolbar 3) Click on the second from the left drop down menu The phrases "matches glob" and "matches regexp" are very unixy terms. I have no how to form or what to do with a glob or a regexp. My mother, when trying to use the find functionality certainly didn't. These are confusing terms to a person who hasn't used Unix/Linux for years. cc'ing Arlo amd Vera. Josh ------- Additional Comments From rebecka@eazel.com 2001-08-18 19:01:53 ---- I think Darin is wrong here about searching for files by regexps It seems like searching for file names by pattern should only allow the glob patterns, because that's what people expect. We shouldn't call them globs, just "pattern" or something like this. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:31 -------
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
Search is no longer part of Nautilus functionality. Closing this bug.
Sorry for the SPAM, re-opening the old Search bugs and assigning them to Rebeckas old Eazel account.
Bug closed as proposed by Curtis C. Hovey, substitute maintainer of Medusa