Regular expressions might be useful in the search dialog, but I would make it one of those "power-user" features (well documented and well hidden). I know that I personally don't use them enough to get much benefit.
Every time I need regular expressions for something, I invariably spend an afternoon hunched over a reference thinking, "Did I ever learn how to use these?" -----Original Message----- From: Charles de Miramon [mailto:cmira...@nerim.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:34 PM To: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI. John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > The attached patch resolved the following tickets: > #6486 Citation not selected by default. > #6487 Add "file" and "url" links to Citation Dialog. Thank you for #6486 I think the dialog would be simpler to use if it had a more classical look like Endnote X2 insertion dialog : see : http://www.edtechblog.org/2009/01/i-am-switching-from-ms-word-to- apple-pages/ Quick search at the top The list of references below The formatted reference in a grey zone (and not in white) The formatting options I would suppress from LyX dialog the option enabling Search-as-you-type. For me it seems that having it the defaut is what is expected I'm also wondering what are the use case of a regular expression search or a case search. If I cite something when writing, either I remember the name of the author or a word in the title or maybe the name of the journal. But finding a bibliographical reference with a regular expression, I must not be geek enough ;-) Cheers, Charles
