Simon, > It enables powerful searches over the various help texts plugins provide > via their Registration. I surely do not understand why having this > feature might be considered a bad thing. Thanks for the insights from you and Guillermo. I think I understand now. > Well, maybe it is a little used feature, but I do not understand why > we should remove it? There's no reason you should remove it from Gimp. The motive behind my question is I am considering whether to remove regex from Film Gimp. Never having used that feature, I was just trying to figure out what it really does. Cheers, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.FilmGimp.org www.LinuxMovies.org www.OpenSourceProgrammers.org