Advanced find does not search in deactivated branches

Kornel Benko kornel at lyx.org
Fri Feb 18 09:31:27 UTC 2022


Am Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:44:18 -0500
schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org>:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 03:02:00PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > Am Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:55:10 -0500
> > schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org>:
> >   
> > > In the attached, if I do an advanced find with 2.4.04dev for $\coloneqq$, it is not
> > > found. If I then activate the branch, it is found. Is this a feature or a bug?
> > > 
> > > Scott  
> > 
> > Feature, since exported latex does not contain these data, and we use
> > latex output as a search-source.  
> 
> Ah that makes sense. Indeed now I see that even LyX notes aren't
> searched.
> 
> It feels a bit strange from a user perspective though since vanilla find
> does search in deactivated branches. Also, the user does not know the
> implementation (i.e., searching the LaTeX output). That said, it sounds
> like it would be complicated to ask for LaTeX output from all insets.
> 
> Scott

Given the string 'ABCD' while 'B' is in deactivated branch.
Now considering the case searching for the word 'ACD'.
Should it be found?

	Kornel
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