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Bug 115926 - mozilla-like quickfind
mozilla-like quickfind
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Search Interface
2.32.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 150980 165666 328725 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-25 12:59 UTC by Jakub Steiner
Modified: 2012-08-24 20:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Jakub Steiner 2003-06-25 12:59:48 UTC 
There's glob and regex filtering requests in the bugzilla already. However
there's something I do quite often: I have a directory with thousands of
files and I want to find one. The select-as-you-type that's in nautilus is
very useful, but only works for sequences of characters at the begtinning
of a filename (not fun with hundreds of gnome-mime-* files). 

It would be nice to have a quickfind functionality like mozilla has and I
love. 

1. press /
2. continue typing a string
3. nautilus selects a first occurence of a file containing the sequence
4. F3 selects the next occurence, eventually wrapping to the beginning of
the list again.
Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2004-08-24 21:58:27 UTC 
*** Bug 150980 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2005-05-15 20:20:12 UTC 
*** Bug 165666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Kevin Duffus 2006-02-15 17:04:04 UTC 
It would be nice to start typing and have a entry box similar to that of the blue bar in the search window show up with your entered text. Subsequently, only those files that match the filter regex will show while the others disappear. A cancel [X] button could be clicked to remove the search bar and return all files to view. Please consider. Thanks.
Comment 4 Cees Timmerman 2006-11-13 13:07:06 UTC 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328725 looks like what you want. Maybe the grouping is optional, keeping context.
Comment 5 William Jon McCann 2012-08-24 20:29:08 UTC 
*** Bug 328725 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 William Jon McCann 2012-08-24 20:29:44 UTC 
This is pretty similar to what we have now with search. If there are missing features there please file a new bug. :)