GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 331443
Add a help button to the Select Pattern dialog
Last modified: 2006-03-22 03:00:13 UTC
The Select Pattern dialog needs a help button and a corresponding section in the User Guide. The section can be written in time for 2.14 by myself or another member of the documentation team. (But information about the Select Pattern feature's capabilities would be appreciated.) I've added a DocBook id 'nautilus-select-pattern' for the help button to point to in CVS.
> The section can be written in time for 2.14 by myself or another member of the documentation team Excellent! > But information about the Select Pattern feature's capabilities would be appreciated. The "Select Pattern" dialog allows you to select all files in the open directory that match a particular file name pattern. The "*" character will match at least one character in the file name, the "?" character will match exactly one character in the file name. Other characters are interpreted literally and case-sensitive. If no file name matches the given character, no action will be taken, otherwise the currently selected files will be unselected and the matching files will be selected and exposed (I don't know how you call scrolling to a particular file in the docs).
Thanks. Is selecting by regular expression still in Nautilus? There's an old bug report on the User Guide that mentions this.
No, these are more simple glob patterns without back-references and sophisticated meta character voodoo. We're just applying GPatternSpecs [1] to each file. [1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Glob-style-pattern-matching.html
New section on this is in the User Guide in CVS, id 'nautilus-select-pattern'.
The button is in CVS, too: 2006-03-22 Martin Wehner <martin.wehner@gmail.com> * src/file-manager/fm-directory-view.c: (pattern_select_response_cb), (select_pattern): Add help button to the Select Pattern dialog. (#331443) * src/nautilus-connect-server-dialog.c: (response_callback), (nautilus_connect_server_dialog_init): Add help button to the Connect to Server dialog. (#334330) * src/nautilus-location-dialog.c: (response_callback), (nautilus_location_dialog_init): Add help button to the Open Location dialog (#334293)