This condition is hard for people to understand and use, so I think we should add more explanation and help. I spent a little bit of time looking at other text comparison UI's, but nowhere near what I think is necessary to make the interface what it could be.
Some initial ideas.
- Left to right might be a better direction than up to down.
- We could improve the text fields with labels and make them expandable as well.
- We should definitely add a link to Online Regular Expression Builder.
More to come.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
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| #4 | regex.patch | 905 bytes | mitchell |
Comments
Comment #1
davidcgutman commentedAre all of the regular expressions allowed in the Online Regular Expression Builder allowed? I'd love to have a negative look-behind (?<!....) but I wasn't sure how common that was outside of Perl...
Comment #2
amitaibu@Mitchell,
Maybe you can create a patch that adds a link to the Wikipedia definition - you can look at the flag integration, it has a link to the singelton definition.
Comment #3
fagooh, fine.
>- Left to right might be a better direction than up to down.
Do you meaning putting the textfields on the same line? I think having the whole line is good when comparing longer strings?
>- We could improve the text fields with labels and make them expandable as well.
We would have to change them to textareas I think. Why not, perhaps just add only a few rows by default, 2 or 3?
>- We should definitely add a link to Online Regular Expression Builder.
That sounds to be a fine idea, however we need to check that generated regexes are working fine.. (as #1 says)
Comment #4
mitchell commented@1: Not sure about all, but I've used this regex builder several times and it worked. Please give it a try.
@2: That was helpful, thanks.
@left to right & textareas: I'll keep messing around to try and find a good layout.
Comment #5
mitchell commentedtag
Comment #6
fagopatch committed, thanks.