[MlMt] Change Standard Search Field of Custom Search

[Mateusz Parzonka]

On 1 Mar 2013, at 1:39, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 28 Feb 2013, at 23:39, Eric A. Meyer wrote:
>
>> At 11:51 +0100 2/28/13, Andre Kaltenbacher wrote:
>>
>>> On 28 Feb 2013, at 11:47, Mateusz Parzonka wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is possible, although a bit hidden.
>>>> Select menu: Edit > Find > Use as default search
>>>
>>> I'm so happy now. This was very annoying - not to know about it :)
>>
>> Same here-- in fact, this solves an irritation I hadn't quite 
>> realized I had.
>
> The user is also unlikely to find this even though it is in the Find 
> menu. It's a non-standard item in a standard menu which is easily 
> over-looked. Not sure what to do about it other than writing about it 
> in the unwritten FAQ. (The menu item was a stop-gap solution until I 
> had time to improve the interface for quick searches, but that is 
> still not going to happen soon.)
>
> Note that one can setup multiple search conditions (such as from, to, 
> common, …) since any conditions with empty text fields are ignored 
> when searching. Kind of a hack, but it can be useful if you have more 
> than one favorite kind of search.
>
Thanks Benny, this is incredibly powerful. Once configured with 3-4 
conditions, I think this should be enough for most queries one can come 
up with. And then you just fly through your incremental search by 
tabbing through the fields. Killer feature, really.

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Mateusz