[development] admin user search by email patch

[Moshe Weitzman]

we are trying to make core work better out of the box for admins. 
pointing out a contrib module that does this is not really helpful, IMO. 
More helpful would be reviewing the patch as Damien requests.

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Damien Norris <damien.norris at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hello Drupal developers!
>>
>> This is my first post to this list and I apologize up front if i am  
>> suggesting something newbish or stupid or going about this the wrong  
>> way... but here goes!
>>
>> I would like to propose inclusion of a small patch to user.module,  
>> which extends /admin/user/search so that if you have "administer  
>> user" permissions, your search string will match against e-mail  
>> addresses as well as just usernames.  I looked at the DEP  
>> documentation and I think tihs is probably simple enough to propose  
>> here in email, as there is a patch ready...
>>
> 
> Perhaps http://drupal.org/project/advuser would fit the need.
> 
> Earnie