Search and replace help

[Kåre Särs]

On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 01.05.47 EEST Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Dienstag, 25. Mai 2021 21:12:15 CEST Kåre Särs wrote:
> > Hello Spiro,
> > 
> > On tisdag 25 maj 2021 kl. 12:50:38 EEST S T wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have been looking through forums and mailing lists but couldn't find a
> > > solution, so I am trying here. When using "search and replace" plugin it
> > > used to output found files (text) with paths relative to projects
> > > folder.
> > > Now, after a computer reboot it shows paths as absolute. It used to be:
> > > 6.439 matches (6.439 checked) found in project Ticket_3080
> > > (C:/Users/spiro/OneDrive - spiro/Ticket_handling/JIRAs/Ticket_3080/)
> > > /Ticket_3080/Ticket_3080.txt: 34
> > > /Ticket_3080/Ticket_3080.txt.bak: 34
> > > /Ticket_3080/blade_00/main/configurationViewer/Overview.txt: 90
> > > /Ticket_3080/blade_00/main/managedObject/mom-dump.txt: 90
> > > ...
> > > And now it looks like this:
> > > 6.439 matches (6.439 checked) found in project Ticket_3080
> > > (C:/Users/spiro/OneDrive - spiro/Ticket_handling/JIRAs/Ticket_3080/)
> > > /C:/Users/spiro/OneDrive -
> > > spiro/Ticket_handling/JIRAs/Ticket_3080/Ticket_3080.txt: 34
> > > /C:/Users/spiro/OneDrive -
> > > spiro/Ticket_handling/JIRAs/Ticket_3080/Ticket_3080.txt.bak: 34
> > > /C:/Users/spiro/OneDrive -
> > > spiro/Ticket_handling/JIRAs/Ticket_3080/blade_00/main/configurationViewe
> > > r/
> > > O
> > > verview.txt: 90 /C:/Users/spiro/OneDrive -
> > > spiro/Ticket_handling/JIRAs/Ticket_3080/blade_00/main/managedObject/mom-
> > > du
> > > m
> > > p.txt: 90 ...
> > > In order to view the results, I need to stretch search and replace
> > > sidebar
> > > to half the screen. It is the same for "project" search as well as "open
> > > files", "current file" search.
> > 
> > For Kate 21.04 the search plugin went through a reworking of how the
> > results are gathered and displayed together with the speed optimization.
> > 
> > The file path has indeed changed from relative to the project/search
> > folder
> > to absolute... I don't remember this being intentional, but I would like
> > to
> > hear opinions from the team: Should we go back to removing the common
> > path?
> 
> Not quite sure, maybe it was me who removed the common part of the path from
> the results a few years ago, to save horizontal space and avoid repeating
> the same parent dir in every line.
> So, unsurprisingly, I still prefer the shorter version.
>

So now we have 3 votes for removing the common base path and 0 votes for 
keeping it... ;)

I'll give it a couple of days and then I'll create a MR

/Kåre