It would be very useful to have a "not regexp" search option for the Status Whiteboard field, like there is for the e-mail fields. An example of how this could be useful: Kipp has asked David and I to monitor his bugs while he is away. Our job is to remove duplicates and invalids. To make this possible, we need a way of distinguishing between new "NEW" bugs and old "NEW" bugs - that is, new bugs which we have already examined vs new bugs which we have not yet read. The easiest way to mark bugs as being read would be to add a consistent marker in the Status Whiteaboard field, such as "[READ]". Then we could simply look for all the bugs without that marker to know which bugs we must next look at. Unfortunately, I cannot currently see a way of looking for bugs which do _not_ say a particular thing in the Status Whiteboard (or summary, or description, or url, for that matter). This feature would be a great help.

FIXED. I am including a patch which has this fix.

That same patch appears in bug 6677. Anyway, it's all better now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6677 ***

Yup, it's a dup. Thanks Terry! :-)

moving to Bugzilla product reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE