Search dosnt appear to correctly work

[molster]

I didnt see anything in the documentation for this, so was jsut using CTRL F (both in browser, and when popped out as its own window)

However CTRL F only searches for content that is in the view. If i have about 900+ lines, you basically cant search any of the css.

[webextensions]

@molster Thank you for your report.

We use the CodeMirror library for rendering the code editor functionality. By default, for performance reasons, it does lazy rendering which is controlled by a parameter called viewportMargin (https://codemirror.net/5/doc/manual.html#option_viewportMargin).

The default value for viewportMargin is 10. If we set it to a very high number (or Infinity), then that would solve the search issue for high number of lines of code.

We will attempt the change in the following ways:

• Phase 1: We update the extension by setting the viewportMargin to 5000 by default assuming that it should work well enough for most of the use cases without causing a major performance hit. Note: This change is done with https://github.com/webextensions/live-css-editor/commit/1899646cb42dccdf987fa44fce885020f5bf8441 and the extension update has been submitted to the Chrome Web Store. It should be available soon with v8.22.4 onwards :+1:
• Phase 1 follow up: We wait for sometime so that we don't get any reports of performance issue from the users.
• Phase 2: Provide a customization option for this under the More options page where the user should be able to choose an appropriate value as per their needs.

[webextensions]

We hope that the root cause should be fixed for most of the use-cases as per the above mentioned Phase 1 changes.

Keeping the issue open for the updates to be done for Phase 2.

[molster]

Thank you! This will be such a time saver.

[webextensions]

Added a TODO note for the remaining part (https://github.com/webextensions/live-css-editor/commit/f2d3df6709ec8bd6662bbb58a6bc89a4c4377975) and closing this issue.