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[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Piotr,

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Piotr Tarnowski wrote:

> Gilles,
>
>   to effectively use quick search text box I need negation so, that I can
> filter-out all files with RAW in name. The simplest solution would be to
> check if first character is ! and if so search for remaining and negate
> (for example:
>
> [!RAW    ]
>
> ). I'm going to patch this way. Do you like the idea or prefer different
> one?

I really like this idea a lot!

Some possible extensions:
- logical AND between space separated text:
  Either implicit:
    location1  location2
  or explicitly:
    location1 & location2
- the same with OR
    location1  location2
  or explicitly:
    location1 | location2
This would mean a change to the current behaviour,
where location1 location2 would filter for "location1 location2"
(i.e. typically no hits).

(Not sure if we really would like to allow for combining
logical expressions here ;-)

Maybe the best is if you add a feature wish to the bug-tracker
and add your patch there.
This allows to refine things (if necessary) and
also ensure that this is also ported to the KDE4 branch properly.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Arnd