[bookport] Re: Searches in Large Files
- From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:32:24 -0600
The ability to abort a search if you see you've made a mistake
and you have a big file is a good idea, and I think a progress
tone to say the BP is still searching is also worth considering.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ptorpey" <ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:24 PM
Subject: [bookport] Searches in Large Files
Every once in a while, I perform a search for a text string in a
large
file. If the text is not in the file, or at the end of a large
file,
the BP will, of course, not respond for many seconds. The first
time or
two this happened, I thought that the BP had locked up. Now, if
this
happens I know to wait. However, the user may not always know
where a
certain text string occurs in a file (after all, what is a search
for?).
Thus, if the search string is far from the current position in
the file,
the searches will naturally take a long time. I wonder if there
is any
way of escaping from such a search so that the user can get on
with
his/her work or move more quickly through the file. Is it worth
thinking about adding such an escape key/function to the BP?
What do folks think - Have others experienced this?
-- Pete
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