Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Match Selected...

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:03:21 +0200
Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:38:54 Laurent Deniel wrote:
> >
> >
> > The Match Selected feature currently works only if you have a field
> > selected in the protocol tree. A long time ago, if I remember correctly,
> > it was also working when you selected some bytes in the packet hex dump
> > window (with a display filter of the form frame[...] = ...).
> >
> > So we have 2 options :
> >
> > 1) make it work again with the hex dump window or,
> >
> > 2) disable the Match Selected menu item when there is no protocol row
> >    selected (like "Protocol Properties ...")
> >    and remove it from the right click popup menu of the packet list
> >    (since it is now only related to the protocol tree).
> >
> > Any remarks ?
> 
> I don't recall Ethereal doing *anything* with the current
> selection in the hex dump GtkText widget.
> 
> --gilbert

Hmm, you should be right or was it a side effect or an released patch ? 
I do not remember.

So what about my options ?

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