On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 04:35:08PM +0000, Mark Skilbeck wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 07:50:51PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:36:36AM +0000, Mark Skilbeck wrote:
> > > Okay. So with a little effort, I wrote a basic patch. See the attached. I went
> > > with the "search for %s -> prompt for query" approach. Of course, the code is
> > > bad - I'm not a great or even good coder, but it should serve as an outline that
> > > you could give me feedback on.
> >
> > thanks - I'll pick it apart.
>
> Attached is a revised patch. This one *doesn't* die because of uninitialized
> memory ;)
>
> I haven't figured out how to clear the old query from the status line, though.

I'm investigating that (actually I spent an hour and reorganized things,
and am setting up some test cases so I can see the effect - I'll send an
updated patch when that's done, presumably in the morning since I'm almost
out of time for tonight).

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