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- WOULD IT BE WORTH CONSIDERING?...
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- ESCAPE
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- Hit ESCAPE while seeking to abort the seek.
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- MORE SEARCH CRITERIA
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- Are 3 search criteria enough? It would be easy to add more, but is there any
- point? I don't think that there's any situation where I'd ever want to
- search for a verse which contained four specified words where searching for
- three wouldn't be good enough.
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- OR
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- Would an "OR" option be worth considering? (E.g. verses containing "faith"
- AND ("hope" OR "charity")).
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- For technical reasons, I would NOT want to implement a search for "faith" OR
- "hope" OR "charity". I'd like there to always be one primary search key.
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- ((The program chooses one of the target words to be the primary search key,
- and has a fast algorithm for finding occurrences of that one word - once the
- word is found the verse it occurs in is checked for any secondary criteria
- at a more leisurely pace))
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- It would be quite easy to write the code for something like this, but
- explaining it to the users gets a bit difficult, and some users would end up
- getting confused.
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- BROWSE
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- Clicking on the BROWSE option would open a text window, rather like the
- output window, but with a small tool pane. Clicking on the appropriate tool
- would go forward/backward one book/chapter/page.
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- PHRASE SEARCH
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- If you happen to know a phrase which occurs in the target text, then you
- could type "God so loved the world" into a PHRASE search icon. SEEK would
- then only report verses which contain those words in that exact order.
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- WILD CARDS
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- A complete implementation of wild cards would be very tricky indeed, but the
- following restricted wild card feature would be much easier:-
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- You would be allowed to seek words like "Abr*" which would match "Abram",
- "Abraham", "Abraham's" etc. The "*" would only be permitted as the last
- character, it would not be possible to search for "*braham".
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- This facility has now been incorporated into the WORDCOUNT option, but would
- it be useful to have it in the main SEEK option.
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- IT'S UP TO YOU
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- Could you make better use of SEEK if it had some of these features
- implemented?
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- Is there anything else that you think it should do?
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- Have you spotted any bugs?
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- If so, write to
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- Mike Williams
- 111 Evering Road
- LONDON N16 7SL
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