[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 11381] New: Search should optionally be whitespace insensitive

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11381

           Summary: Search should optionally be whitespace insensitive
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: pete at peterlyons.com
                CC: nshmyrev at yandex.ru


= Transfering this bug from GNOME Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408299 =


When searching a PDF document for a particular phrase containing spaces (as
opposed to a single keyword), search will not match occurances of that phrase
if they occur in a paragraph and have been laid out with a line break in the
middle of the phrase.  This behavior is sometimes desired. However, I would
like an option to search where all whitespace is considered equivalent.  This
would be useful for normal paragraphs-of-text type traditional documents. 
Perhaps this mode should be default, even.

For example, if my document contains: "around the\nbend" where \n is a line
break, and my search text is "around the bend", I would like search to match in
this case.  Basically, if spaces in the search string would be treated as a
multiline regex \s character class, that should do it.


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 Comment #3 from Pablo Rodríguez  (points: 10)
2007-04-19 17:51 UTC [reply]

I guess that whitespaces should be treated the same way than in regexp
searches, because otherwise it might be confusing and potentially misleading
for users. Regexp search should be an alternative to the standard search.

But this is my personal opinion.


Comment #4 from Philip Ganchev (points: 6)
2007-04-19 20:18 UTC [reply]

You mean standard search should ignore line breaks, but regexp search should
not.  This is what I think too.


Comment #5 from Peter Lyons (reporter, points: 2)
2007-04-19 20:32 UTC [reply]

That seems good to me.  Regular non-tech searchers get all whitespace treated
as equal, but if you want to be advanced and do a regex search, you know about
whitespace and want your regex to work just as it would in a programming
language.


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