[josm-dev] Ticket #485: Can't search for tag's which contain colons

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Florian Heer wrote:

>> I don't think that's a good idea. It is very unintuitive.
>
> The search right now is unintuitive... ...

Yup. :-)

>> Better would probably be a distinction between normal search and a power
>> search (e.g. using regular expressions).
>
> .... either this ...
>
>> Regarding the ':'. Why not switching to '=' for the standard method at
>> all? Usually tags have no '=', but very often they have ':'.
>>
>
> .... or at least as a start this.
> I didn't understand the reason for this kind of search anyway.
> Intuitively I would have assumed "=" was the standard separator.
>
>> A good combination would be supporting // as regexp, so
>>
>
> Yes, but at least I can't do that in one evening :-)
>
>> Anyway the search seems to need some reworking:
>
> Full Ack.

Do you want to do that?

a) Switch to '='.
b) Update the ToolTip to reflect full functionality.
c) Make the search text and states persisting.
    c1) Make the search results persisting (I have no idea how, but would be nice).
d) Possibly add RegExp (have a look at the new validator TagChecker, where 
did nearly the same.).

e) Cleanup in senseful ways to get a cleaner interface. Ask here for 
design decisions before you start much coding.

Ciao
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