265056 - Backspace during Find should go back to old match for partial string

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[Met - Martin Hassman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Find toolbar shoul use incremental search in similar way like Vim ("set incsearch").

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Assuming page with words "a", "and", "angel" in this order somewere in the page
2. Write "a" in the find toolbar -> page scrolls to "a" and higlight "a". OK
3. Continue write "an"  page scrolls to "and" and higlight "an" in "and". OK
4. Continue write "ang"  page scrolls to "angel" and higlight "ang". OK
5. Delete last character (so we have searching for "an") -> Firefox will
higlight *an* in angel. I think, this is wrong .

This was delete (probable typist's error), so Firefox should return to the
previously seleted "and" and higliht "an" in it.
Actual Results:  
Look in the Vim editor with switch on "incsearch" and "incsearch"

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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