Type-ahead find

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Dnia pią 19. marca 2004 16:49, Arend van Beelen jr. napisał:
> On Friday 19 March 2004 16:32, George Staikos wrote:
> >    I would love to see this patch in CVS when it's stable.  Regarding
> > this semantic problem, I think having a state that is entered or
> > exitted to trigger typeahead is ideal.  In fact, I like the vim
> > approach, though emacs users will undoubtedly want their own
> > keybinding.  Basically I was thinking of something like this:
> >
> > Type '/'
> > visual cue appears - perhaps a statusbar extension icon or even just a
> > status message
> > typeahead is active and overrides vim navigation keys, etc
> > enter/escape exit this mode.
>
> I think this is indeed a good idea which will keep all current users
> happy :)

More Vim compability the better ;)

>
> > > - Pressing F3 won't find the next occurrence of the string you're
> > > searching for. Now this is related to the functions findTextBegin()
> > > and the old findTextNext() I use. Can someone explain how I use the
> > > new API which (hopefully) gets the F3 key to work. (Btw, this problem
> > > affects my Google search bar as well)
> >
> >   You could bind "n" to do that when type-ahead mode is inactive.
>
> This one doesn't seem very logical to me. It would be much more intuitive
> to use F3 just like the regular Search Next. Furthermore, using "n" has a
> disadvantage where you need to exit type-ahead first, either by pressing
> Escape or waiting 3 seconds. Being able to immediately press F3 just
> makes more sense IMHO.

1. When introducing Vi(m) compability options do it right. 'n' _is_ 
   a logical next look for those who knew convention.
2. Not sure if mixing regular search and type-ahead search histories is 
   good thing.


BTW. What about other KHTML-aware apps like kmail, knode, etc.?

m.

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