Closed Bug 193928 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Make CR or LF function as "search again"

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, enhancement)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Find In Page
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: owen.marshall+bmo, Assigned: aaronlev)

Details

Spun off bug 198274. "CR or LF: search again, that is, search for the next match of the current search string."
bug 198274 does not exist yet.... Is that the right bug number? Note that we have Ctrl-g as a shortcut for this already and that enter should trigger the link if the text you find is in a link. So its use for "search again" would be very inconsistent (it would search again unless the search result was in a link).
[shift]+F3 also exists to repeat searches. i'd be tempted to wontfix this.
Sorry, sorry, this was spun off bug 189274.
Look at that bug, so was I =) I just wanted to get others opinions. Consistency is good and all. I stand with good company, it seems.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
v wf.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Is anyone sympathetic to the idea of making the "/ <enter>" sequene find the next search? Although Shift-F3 and Ctrl-G both already do this as was pointed out, both of these combos are keys which are rather far apart spatially and which, by using modifier keys, must be pressed together. In the interest of accessibility, it would seem to be rather harmless to bind "/ <enter>" to the same functionality. There is a long precedent for exactly this in vi. Also, the / indicates the beginning of a FAYT search so it would be quite reasonable to assume if the user hit slash followed immediately by Enter then the next match was wanted.
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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