JSesh Documentation

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 Then type your text (search will disregard case) :
 {{ :doc:en:searchamon.png?nolink |Searching for non-hieroglyphic texts}}
+===== Search in folders =====
+This is a very powerful feature of JSesh : it can search in all the glyph files contained in a folder (and its sub-folders). In a way, you can use your texts (including translations typed in JSesh) as a kind of rough linguistic database.
+To use this function, use the menu **Edit/Find in Folder**. Then select the "root" folder for your search.
+In the example below, I'm looking for attestation of Atum, using a fairly generic wildcard. Note the use of [...] to include variant signs (some possible determinatives are however missing in this search, I leave it to the interested reader as an exercice). Also note the length I have set to limit the //false positive// results. Remember that this length includes the whole result, not only the part skipped over by the "*".
+{{ :doc:en:foldersearch.png?nolink |Search in folders}}
+Once the search is started, the occurrences will appear in the list below the search form. Double-clicking on an occurrence will open the corresponding document.