244835 - Regular expression in searching in the page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32641

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Met - Martin Hassman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; cs-CZ; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; cs-CZ; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

There would be nice to have a regular expression possibility in the searching in
the page (this can concern not only Browser, but Editor and Mail too).

The dialog "Find on the page" should have 4th checkbox "Regular expression" and
when it is checked the searching will use regular expression search.

MS Word and OpenOffice.org Writer have it so! Well, most users are using
classical search (simple text), but on the search dialog of MS Word and
OpenOffice.org Writer, there is checkbox for regular expression search, so
experienced users can use it 8-)

Mozilla understands regular expressions. So I hope, there is no problem for
implementing this.

Yes, of course, there are some questions how to implement some more problematic
cases like:

a) Moz<b>illa</b> <- should this be handled as Mozilla (on word) or two words
Moz and illa.

b) How to handle ^ and $ - probaly as the begining and the end of the paragraph
(OpenOffice.org has it so) - but what exactly is a paragraph? Only the text
between <p> and </p> tags? Or everything, what have display:block ?

But I think that the most of the syntax is clear and without problems see:

[df]og
Java(Script)?
(.)(.).\2\1  <- (pallindrom ;-)
bug [1-2][0-9][0-9]

etc. etc. etc.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Met - Martin Hassman]

xref: bug #213567

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32641 ***

Comment 3

[Adam Hauner]

v=aha