[KPhotoAlbum] Main window search bar doesn't allow selecting all matches

[Robert Krawitz]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 23:37:23 +0100, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Am Sonntag, 12. Jänner 2020, 16:48:28 CET schrieb Robert Krawitz:
>> I'd like to be able to select all keywords (say) by match.  For
>> example, I want to select all women's (vs. men's) basketball games by
>> typing "women" into the search bar.  At present, it appears that all
>> that this will do is narrow the scope of what's displayed to make it
>> easier to find a particular game (rather than having to look through
>> all keywords), but I can't actually select by pattern.  Is there
>> something I've missed here?
>
> Do you mean a multi-selection when browsing by tag?

No, I mean "all tags matching the regexp /women's/i" or "all tags
matching the regexp / men's/i" sort of thing without having to select
them one by one.

> I've briefly played with the idea at some point, but it wasn't a
> high priority back then. I guess I wasn't sure whether hard-coding
> the multi-selection as AND or OR combination would be
> self-explaining, or something along those lines.  Revisiting this
> decision, I would now think that hard-coding an OR combination as
> you suggested would be a natural fit. I think this shouldn't be too
> hard to implement...
>
> The second part "selecting everything at once" would probably need
> some consideration, but I think that should not be rocket-science
> either.

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