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Cerrus

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Add string search to all menus that use +-
« on: October 05, 2011, 05:21:14 pm »
Could you add the ability to search for a string in the current menu to all menus?  Ideally for me the key '/' would work, just like in the vi(m) text editor.

Or whatever key, doesn't matter.  If it supported regular expressions, even better.  So, if I went into stocks, I could hit say "/bars" and it would take me
down to bars.

Obviously this would be more useful with the menus involving dwarf names.  Trying to find the right dwarf to carve into a slab to get the ghost to
stop killing your poor dorfs can be a chore when you have several hundred names (I still have 3 ghosts I can't seem to get buried/carved and am only
slightly certain they don't show up in the list for slab carving because it's long and my eyes are bad...)


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Re: Add string search to all menus that use +-
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2011, 07:03:09 pm »
I like the idea of being able to search all menus. I think for engraving slabs simply having the ones that do not already have a slab engraved showing up in a different color would be a big improvement if you were too lazy to search.
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Re: Add string search to all menus that use +-
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2011, 12:01:36 pm »
nobody is lazy,the infinite lists make us lazy.
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Re: Add string search to all menus that use +-
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2011, 06:38:48 am »
I agree. Also, more filtering options.
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Re: Add string search to all menus that use +-
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2011, 07:51:27 am »
This suggestion. So simple, so elegant, so needed. I want.  :P
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Re: Add string search to all menus that use +-
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2011, 01:31:34 am »
Was suggested before, but it makes a lot of sense to implement.
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Re: Add string search to all menus that use +-
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2011, 04:40:40 am »
This can be done in libgraphics. If using curses mode, you can search for text with the terminal emulator and mash page-down; libgraphics could emulate this. It has access to, at least, lines of text in the menus (as demonstrated by enabling TRUETYPE). If it provides a list widget to DF, then searching could be implemented to work perfectly and without hacks. (But I think that is not the case.)
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