Bug 77753

Summary:	JJ: Find in composer doesn't allow to search regular expressions
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Stephan Binner <binner>
Component:	composer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hirsch
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Stephan Binner 2004-03-16 12:18:57 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The find functionality in the KMail composer doesn't support regular expression search/regexpeditor while the message viewer does. That's inconsistent. :-)

Comment 1 Falco Hirschenberger 2004-06-19 14:12:59 UTC

I investigated this inconsistency and found out that the search functionality in the KMComposeWin comes from a KMEdit widget, which is derived from KEdit.

What can we do now?
	* Implement the search dialog myself. Overriding KEdit's.
	* Extend KEdit's search dialog to support RegEx searches.
	* Use another editor component (will probably break much code).

Does anybody have another idea?

Comment 2 David Faure 2004-06-19 23:15:08 UTC

My personal preference would be to write an extended KEdit in kdelibs/kutils, and base
the find/replace functionality on KFind/KReplace there. They provide most of the functionality
needed for find and replace, including support for regexps.
This would of course be for the next release *after* KDE-3.3.

On the other hand, I suppose other developers would prefer a way to just use
any text-editor component (like katepart) in the composer? IIRC this was planned,
I'm not sure what's the status on that.

Comment 3 Falco Hirschenberger 2004-06-22 11:28:08 UTC

Then I think this is a bit too heavy to classify it as JJ ;-)

Comment 4 Thomas McGuire 2007-07-11 20:28:48 UTC

See also bug 65253.

Comment 5 Thomas McGuire 2009-03-20 00:27:57 UTC

Fixed in KDE 4.