[regex-coach] Feature requests/bug reports

[Charlie Hayes]

My friend was using it on some HTML, basically parsing out the  
decimal values from a table. Sorry I cant give you the exact strings.  
He's on XP pro and the latest version as of a week ago. It was pretty  
definite that it would freeze up, if he used it for more than one  
minute it would freeze up. He did some drag-selecting inside the  
regex box that seemed to cause repeated evaluations.

As for the radio buttons, if there are more than 10 groups to  
extract, your out of luck. Also, you cant view the contents of the  
group without clicking on the radio button and then looking in the  
subject box.

It would be great if you made the group radio buttons into a list box  
that displayed the group index, start, end, length, and contents. He  
was getting over 10 groups, maybe thats what may have been causing  
the freeze ups.

-Charlie

On Nov 4, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Edi Weitz wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:33:36 -0500, Charlie Hayes  
> <cosmotic at cybercoment.com> wrote:
>
>> There seems to be some sort of leak or looping problem. After a
>> small bit of usage, Regex Coach becomes unusably slow.  Restarting
>> the application fixes this for a short period of time before it must
>> be restarted again, etc.
>
> I can't reproduce this.  Do you have a specific usage pattern?  Could
> you give me a more precise description (including regexes and target
> string) of what you're doing and details about the Regex Coach version
> and your machine and OS?
>
>> It would really help to replace all the 10 radio buttons for the
>> group extraction into a listbox or similar UI.
>
> Why would that help?
>
>> It would also be nice if a better (less bold) font were used, or
>> have the font be user-selectable.
>
> You're not the first one to ask.  This will most likely appear in one
> of the next versions (if time permits).
>
> Thanks,
> Edi.