[MonoDevelop] Searching

[John Luke]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:11 +0900, Ian MacLean wrote:
> Archie Maskill wrote:
> 
> > Jacob Ilsø Christensen wrote:
> >
> >> Right now I'll focus on getting wrap, no loop to work then. And after 
> >> that I'll see what other options might be desired.
> >
> >
> > If I could offer a suggestion for options : I'd very much like to see 
> > a search box in the Firefox style (the slim horizontal bar that 
> > appears at the bottom of the window, next to the status bar).  It's so 
> > much better than the usual pop-up dialog box which always seems to 
> > want to obscure the code you're trying to read. :)
> 
> I seem to remember the GEdit team implemented somthing like this a while 
> ago but as a side bar. It doesn't seem to have made it into a release 
> though.
> The trouble with searching in an editor as opposed to a browser window 
> is that you usually want more options readily available and they 
> wouldn't easily fit in the firefox like horizontal panel.
> 
I believe they are still working on it. There is information and mockups
here which should be useful if someone is going to try this:
http://live.gnome.org/Gedit