162751 - [rfe] Find dialog should pass unused navigation keys to target window

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

It would be nice, while doing a find, if the navigation keys that are unused by
the find panel (page up, page down, home, end, I think) could be passed along to
the window in which the content resides.

Often when searching for something in a document, Find will find the proper
keyword, but the content I need to see to decide if that's the data I'm looking
for will be just above or below the screen boundry.  Now, I have to click on the
content pane, do my navigation, then click back to the find dialog to resume my
find if that's not what I want.  This can often be repeated 10x or more for a
document of moderate size.

I'd really like the up and down arrow keys to be available too, but the text
field in the find dialog seems to use them.

I wouldn't move the current search position, though, so arbitrary navigation
wouldn't affect the location of the next found repetition.

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

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