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Posted by
| Feantur
(70 posts) Bio
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| Wed 08 Dec 2004 08:02 PM (UTC) |
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| Using Ctrl-F you can search the output buffer from the main window.
My suggestions are:
1. A hotkey/shortcut that lets you search for the next occurrence.
2. A hotkey/shortcut that lets you highlight all occurrence with a customisable colour (a bit like a temporary trigger).
In summary it would be nice if the search function worked similarly to what Firefox offers these days. | Top |
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Posted by
| Poromenos
Greece (1,037 posts) Bio
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Date
| Reply #1 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:29 PM (UTC) |
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| Maybe even a "search as you type" option? |
Vidi, Vici, Veni.
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Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #2 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:42 PM (UTC) |
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| Search as you type would have to be incompatible with 'all typing goes to output window'.
Quote: 1. A hotkey/shortcut that lets you search for the next occurrence. Doesn't shift-ctrl-F do this already? |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:48 PM (UTC) |
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| Yes, shift+ctrl+F does that, and if you want to find all occurences use "recall".
Display menu -> Recall Text (Ctrl+U).
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | Top |
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Posted by
| Poromenos
Greece (1,037 posts) Bio
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Date
| Reply #4 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:49 PM (UTC) |
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| No, i mean searching as you type the word in the search dialog. |
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Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
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Date
| Reply #5 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:54 PM (UTC) |
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| Do the words "application bloat" ring a bell? |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | Top |
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Posted by
| Poromenos
Greece (1,037 posts) Bio
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Date
| Reply #6 on Thu 09 Dec 2004 12:05 AM (UTC) |
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| It's just two lines of code :p |
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Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
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| Reply #7 on Thu 09 Dec 2004 02:57 AM (UTC) |
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| Don't quite follow that. I would need to, after each character, go into the search routine, highlight words, scroll to make them visible, and so on. |
- Nick Gammon
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Posted by
| Poromenos
Greece (1,037 posts) Bio
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| Reply #8 on Thu 09 Dec 2004 10:50 PM (UTC) |
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| Ah, well, I was just saying that the search as you type feature would work as the normal search feature, except it would click search automatically after each keypress. Not a big deal, really. |
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Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #9 on Thu 09 Dec 2004 11:35 PM (UTC) |
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| That wouldn't quite work, though, because search as you type is from the starting position - if you "clicked search" after every keystroke you'd be changing the start position every time. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone
http://david.the-haleys.org | Top |
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Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
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| Reply #10 on Fri 10 Dec 2004 12:35 AM (UTC) |
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| Quite right, and for regular expressions you wouldn't know when it was safe to send them to the regexp parser. |
- Nick Gammon
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