savannah: viewer position from "find file" dialog vs. parsed files

[ossi]

Original: ​http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16017

Submitted by:	Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi>	Submitted on:	Mon 06 Mar 2006 07:05:52 PM UTC
Category:	Viewer	Severity:	3 - Normal
Status:	None	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	None	Open/Closed:	Open
Release:	current (CVS or snapshot)	Operating System:	All

Original submission:

the "find file" dialog does seaching on unfiltered file contents. 
it tells the viewer to start viewing a the line of the match. 
however, if the file is filtered ("parsed", as opposed to "raw") 
before viewing (e.g., lynx -dump), the line number is applied to 
the filtered output - usually with "suboptimal" results.

i'm not sure what to do about this. translating the line numbers 
would require cooperation from the filter, which is sort of 
impossible for external filters. and grepping on filtered files 
would be sloooow. maybe like this: if matches are found and the 
file is "formattable", filter it and grep again and display that as 
the result. alternatively, force the viewer into raw mode, but i 
would not like this. 

[andrew_b]

Ticket #3532 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.