Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] New proto_tree patch

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:28:24 -0700 (PDT)
> Right - so you still end up doubling your code.

By "code" do you mean "lines of code the programmer types" or "bytes of
code+data in the executable"?

> No, not really. Let me clarify - I'm thinking of two different
> mechanisms here:
> 
> 1) Match Selected *Field*: This will use the new filtering mechanism
> and will basically be a shorthand for a filter expression. Of course,
> this won't work on HF_DEFAULT fields.
> 
> 2) Match Selected *Bytes* (which is what we support today).

Which of those two would the folks who wanted the "Match Selected"
operator want?