[okular] [Bug 449283] New: Multiple find bars or delimiter to search for more terms at once

[Wing Hong Chan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449283

            Bug ID: 449283
           Summary: Multiple find bars or delimiter to search for more
                    terms at once
           Product: okular
           Version: 21.12.1
          Platform: Neon Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: winghongchan at vivaldi.net
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
Currently the find bar can only find one phrase. I am wishing for multiple find
bars, which I would use in longer documents to see where two phrases appear
together (like if the words "happiness" and "satisfaction" are used throughout
a document but I want to find a sentence or paragraph that uses both and may
explain a correlation). 

Alternate implementations could be to use a delimiting character to separate
terms, but a hint to the user that they can use a delimiter would have to be
provided. 

This is different from simply typing two words into the find bar, which would
only find anywhere the two words appear immediately next to each other. 


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open the Find bar
2. Type in a search term

OBSERVED RESULT
I now need to look manually for the other term. I have tried to use delimiters
like ',', '&&', ' ', '|' and ':' but they do not work as delimiters to separate
search terms. 

EXPECTED RESULT
If it were a feature, I suppose it would highlight all instances of either
search term. If only one instance is highlighted at once (like the current
behavior), then cycling through results would highlight instances of either
term in the order they appear in the document. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon 5.23
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3

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