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Cross-platform Qt web browser
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[Feature Request] "Search for text when you start typing" #2484

Open bugzy opened 6 years ago

bugzy commented 6 years ago

There is a feature in firefox where a user does not need to hit ctrl+f to initate a search on the text of the page being viewed. Essentially, as long as the Qupzilla/Falkon application window has focus and the mouse cursor is not in any input box (form elements in a page or search or address bars), all text that is typed is automatically searched for and highlighted on the page being viewed; like a ctrl+f+enter search text, except cutting out the "ctrl+f" part. It will be great to have something like this implemented in Falkon.

ghost commented 6 years ago

...but "single button shortcuts" deprecates by this...

bugzy commented 6 years ago

@Diablopc Awesomeness! You seriously just made my day. I had never noticed this option before; and the fact that is uses a / just like vi makes it mind "blowingly" good. Last, the feature is actually called "single key shortcuts."

Of course whereas this discovery essentially solves my problem, it is not the same feature as search as you type. So I leave it to the developers to determine if the search as you type feature is worthwhile. Logically, speaking the implementation is similar to the "single key shortcuts." (As type, I am only just beginning to realize that Firefox has both the "/" and search as you type).