Hello Duncan, Am Freitag, den 12.06.2015, 04:18 +0000 schrieb Duncan: > Heinz Mezera posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:11:57 +0200 as excerpted: > > > Sorry, wrong assumption. I've always tried to use a regex in the > > search-field without changing it's "meaning". I now know this could not > > work. > > So, umm... in that case, what did you think I meant when I said toggle > the search type if it seems to get stuck? If you weren't aware of the > search types menu, what were you trying to do at that point in the > instructions, instead?
I did not understand the meaning of this part of the answer, not in the way you wanted to guide me, what I appreciate very much. > > This isn't an idle question. I spend quite a bit of time on various > mailing lists giving instructions, and obviously, try to write them to be > understood. I obviously skipped a critical step here, click the dropdown As I stated in my first post I'm not a native speaker to whom it would have been obvious what to do. I thought it's enough to change the content of the search field. If I enter just a bunch of characters or an expression would change to way the programm works. I'm very sorry having "wasted" your time. Please don't stop helping and explaining Pan. > and choose regex, so I know to include that next time, but I haven't the > foggiest what you were doing with the toggle instruction if it wasn't > that. Maybe you were simply skipping that instruction as it made no > sense to you at that point? Or maybe you were doing something else, I > have no idea what. If I can better envision what people are thinking > when reading my instructions, even when I'm not clear, perhaps I can make > them clearer, the next time. =:^) > Does my explaination make sense to you? kr from Vienna, Austria, Heinz _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
