Re: [Cgdb-devel] Weird behavior during file-dialog regex search?

[Gilboa D. <gi...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:54 -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:05:15AM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to solve a bug in Fedora version of CGDB (which I maintain).
> > When doing a regular expression search inside the file selection dialog,
> > pressing enter does not select the file, instead, it simply jumps to the
> > next match.
> > The only way to select the first matching file is to press Enter twice.
> > 
> > By looking at the code (capture_regex in filedlg.c) it seems that
> > pressing Enter triggers a search for the next match, instead of simply
> > selecting the last highlight.
> > Given the fact that cgdb is doing regex-as-you-type search, shouldn't
> > cgdb assume that once I press enter, as-you-type search already
> > highlighted the last match?
> 
> OK, that is a really annoying bug, I don't know how I haven't seen
> this before. Thanks.
> 
> I'll have to figure out how to fix this for the next release.

Happy to help.
If you could drop me a fix (or even point me at the right direction)
I'll push an update for Fedora 12/13/14 and RHEL5.

> 
> Bob

- Gilboa
P.S. Did you have a change to look at the focus patch?