Perhaps replace it by pcre (www.pcre.org). It is pretty widely used these days. Perhaps an advanced settings button that would toggle search by regular expression or literal string button would be the best. I think taking away a power option for the sake of simplicity is the wrong approach. Make simple things simple. Make complex things possible. Regards, Dov On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:19:28PM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: > David, > > > I think the point is probably to do a > > trawl through legacy code and see how much of it can be flushed, > > if any. > > I wish! Sometime later. > > Although regex is available with *nix, it isn't part of Windows. My choice > is to remove it or fix the broken regex implemenation included in Film Gimp. > That regex code is full of difficult to debug macros. > > > Now that Robin knows that > > the regex code is useful, at least to some people, he's not > > planning on touching it. > > I'm not? > > Cheers, > > Robin > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > www.FilmGimp.org > www.LinuxMovies.org > www.OpenSourceProgrammers.org > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer -- ___ ___ / o \ o \ Dov Grobgeld ( o o ) o | The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel \ o /o o / "Where the tree of wisdom carries oranges" | | | | _| |_ _| |_
