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Quicksaver / FindBar-Tweak

A firefox add-on that lets you customize the Find Toolbar the way you like it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Open Svk1190 opened 9 years ago

Svk1190 commented 9 years ago

This add-on would become extremely powerful if it supported regular expression search and proximity search. For instance, Google supports queries such as: (random OR chaotic) AROUND(10) reali*ation. It would be great if such powerful query tools would be available in FindBar Tweak as well.

Quicksaver commented 9 years ago

Regex find is already something I am sure to add for the next release (#56), and will probably be in one of the next few betas.

As for your other search types suggestions, we'll see how much of a need there will be for them once Regex is implemented, and then I'll see what I can do about them.

xyTo commented 9 years ago

Hi,

both suggestions would be something I am very much up for. I would be a regular user of regular expressions as well as proximity search. For a fist shot regex would be a big step forward. I look forward to the next beta release.

Quicksaver commented 9 years ago

FYI unfortunately neither Regex or the other find modes suggested will be in the next release, or betas. There's just a lot to do and I have to prioritize, otherwise I will never actually release a new version at this rate. And the next release is already long overdue, as the current release is becoming extremely buggy.

At least Regex will make it into the add-on eventually of course, I can't give you an exact date for this though.

xyTo commented 9 years ago

Hi Luis,

thanks for the quick reply. Don't worry about that. It would be a god thing to have but I understand you situation just to well.

I have just noticed some little bug (and it seems it is not listed anywhere on git-hub). My Firefox freezes immediately if I hit in preferences>>tweaks "Reset all native changed preferences". This is repeatable and I have to kill Firefox once I hit the button in order to use it again.

Would you like me to open a new thread on this? Cheers!

Quicksaver commented 9 years ago

Nice catch! That was quick to fix, I already uploaded v2b9 (https://github.com/Quicksaver/FindBar-Tweak/releases/tag/v2b9) in case you need to reset your prefs or if you'd like to try it out. So there's no need to open a new thread, unless of course it still doesn't work for you. ;)

xyTo commented 9 years ago

Hi,

superb quick fix - I am on 2b9 (was on 2b2) and it works now and seems to be much faster than before as well! Excellent job!

xyTo commented 9 years ago

BTW, will the beta version automatically be update to the final release 2.x or do I have to intervene manually? Cheers

Quicksaver commented 9 years ago

It should update automatically, it usually does for me. I also have the beta in my main profile and I will let it update automatically to make sure. In case it doesn't I'll try to let everyone know.

xyTo commented 9 years ago

ok, I will keep my eyes open and let you know if I can find anything else - I use your plug-in many times a day. I look forward to the final release. Cheers and good luck

Quicksaver commented 9 years ago

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. :)

xyTo commented 9 years ago

Hi,

I have just noticed that since I updater to 2b9 my "Find Suggest" does not show any suggestions anymore. Could there be a problem with FBT 2b9 since it was working with 2b2. Cheers, Tobi

Quicksaver commented 9 years ago

That's actually a problem with Find Suggest, it's now extremely outdated (it still assumes there is only one find bar per window, even if you disable FBT, Find Suggest will only work on the first tab of each window because of that, it will not work in other tabs).

Unfortunately, the way Find Suggest is built doesn't allow me access to its methods from outside, so I can't fix it from within FBT. I already plan on writing my own implementation of its functionality into FBT itself, but in the meantime there's nothing I can do about it.

By the way, once is ok, but now we're spamming @Svk1190 with stuff he/she probably doesn't care about. Let's try to keep this on topic. ;)

xyTo commented 9 years ago

Hi ,

thanks for the reply and sorry for pulling the topic off. I would just as much appreciate seeing a build in Find Suggest in FBT. Thanks!

Quicksaver commented 9 years ago

@xyTo, version 2 was just made public yesterday. I received the automatic update in my main profile, but since you asked about it I would also like to confirm that you received it as well, just to make sure. :)

xyTo commented 9 years ago

Dear Luis,

thank you for your following up. The update worked seamlessly. Thanks for all your efforts. The new version 2 is a significant improvement in all respects. I very much look forward seeing the regular expression search in one of the next versions.

Best regards, Tobi

On 26.07.2015 00:59, Luís Miguel wrote:

@xyTo, version 2 was just made public yesterday. I received the automatic update in my main profile, but since you asked about it I would also like to confirm that you received it as well, just to make sure. :)

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/Quicksaver/FindBar-Tweak/issues/185#issuecomment-124909982

philipp commented 9 years ago

When tackling regular expressions, it's worth keeping in mind different people have different expectations for that kind of thing. Most non-programmers (and many programmers) should not be expected to know/use real regex syntax, and probably would simply expect something more like wildcards used for file globbing. So * means "anything here" (and perhaps ? means "any single character here"). Even I personally, who would consider full regex support very cool indeed, would probably just want simple wildcard/glob syntax almost all of the time. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/57957/how-do-regular-expressions-differ-from-wildcards-used-to-filter-files