[TxMt] Regexp Incremental Search

[Timothy Bates]

One thing i would love to see that is easy is "fast find": the user  
types a start code, and then each character they type is added to the  
find string which occurs live...

In other words, I hit cmd-I (for incremental search),then "e" and the  
e in One would be highlighted. add "a", and the search moves to  
"easy", add "p" and i get a beep and the search stays where it is  
(not found in buffer). backspace, i am searching for "ea" again.  
Click or cmd-I again exits the search.

This is amazingly valuable many times a day.

Firefox has it, as does Safari via the lovely AcidSearch plug-in (if  
you don't have it, grab it!)

tim

Acidsearch = http://www.pozytron.com/acidsearch

On 21/12/2005, at 12:22 PM, Sune Foldager wrote:
> [partial regex is] not unproblematic to implement, I think, since  
> partial regexes are easily illegal or you can accidentally enter  
> something that will take exponential time until you add the final  
> '?' or similar.