156517 - Limiting searching to whole words only

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269442

(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[TGOS]

What I *really* miss in Mozilla is the ability to search for "words" only. Find
has three options:

[_] Match upper/lower case
[_] Wrap around
[_] Search backwards

IE has no wrap around, it always searches that way and I actually always search
that way as well, so I consider it a stupid option that should be enabled by
default, but that's another bug. What I miss is the other option IE has that
limits seasrching to whole words.

E.g. go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/index.html and now find the
class named "File" in the lower-left frame. If you search for "File" and turn on
"Match upper/lower case" you will get 

AudioFileFormat
AudioFileFormat.Type 
AudioFileReader
AudioFileWriter 
BasicFileChooserUI 
File 

Actually that's still a graceful example. In IE I hit search only *once*,
because I can limit the result to whole words only. If I do that and search for
"File", IE will search for:

_File_

Whereby _ can either be '\n' or '\r' or ' ' (a space). This way I won't find
words "inside of other words".

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> search

Comment 2

[amutch]

Dupe of:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14871

Comment 3

[Alex Bishop]

Good work, amutch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14871 ***