223057 - Multiple search on page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Tom Schneider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030518
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030518

I wanted to search for tumor AND also search for tuberculosis, repeatedly,
on a single page.  So I would have to type each of these in again and again.
The search window could allow me to set up multiple searches IN DIFFERENT
COLORS, simultaneously.  Google does a thing like this.  If you search for
a bunch of terms and they are found in a pdf, google will produce an html
page with EACH term in a different color.  The results are spectacularly
easy to read.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[u63580]

Is this similar to bug 65876?

Comment 2

[Tom Schneider]

I found bug 65876 but could not make heads or tails of it, especially 
given the unanswered (for more than a year!) comment,
"From Erich 'Ricky' Iseli  2002-09-27 06:38 
What's this about? can anyone enlighten me?" ... so I figured it
was better to suggest it than it be lost ...

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

This seems to be about the "Find in This Page..." dialog, correct?
(is which case it is not a duplicate of bug 65876)

-> over to XP Apps

Comment 4

[Elmar Ludwig]

Reassigning...

Comment 5

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Confirmed as RFE.
Should this depend on bug 65876 ?

Reporter: could you please clearify the subject a bit ? Like 'searching on page
should support logical (AND OR NOT) operators" or something like that.

Comment 6

[Tom Schneider]

Well, there could be AND and OR, that would be nice,
but it was not what I was thinking.

When I do searches the words show up with a green rectangle
behind them.  I don't recall if this can be set or not.

The kind of search I was thinking of would be like an OR search except
that each term would be assigned its own color.

How about we assign t to be green and i to be red. 

Then "Something like this." would be rendered:

"Some<font color = "green">t</font>h<font color = "red">i</font>ng 
l<font color = "red">i</font>ke <font color = "green">t</font>h<font 
color = "red">i</font>s."  

That's what google does for multiple search terms in PDFs that are
converted to html for display, except it's for words.

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

I closed out bug 65876

Multiple search items as you've described would require a completely different
dialog.  It really wouldn't be sufficiently useful to include in the suite,
although you could do an extension.  Matching a regular expression might suffice
and would be more useful (although most people don't understand regex) and is
already filed as bug 32641.  Highlighting all matches of a single item is bug 62467.

closing this out as WONTFIX