287964 - Allow multiple find

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Paolo Tramannoni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Camino/0.8.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Camino/0.8.2

Hi,

Can you allow for multiple Find strings in the Find dialog box? For example, I
could look for "ice cream" in a page. If I'm not happy with the results, I could
want to look for "pastry". After having done the above researches, I could move
to a different window, with a different web page open into it, and do the same
pair researches.

BBEdit has something like this: run the Find command, and choose the string you
want to look for.

Internet Explorer had something nice, but less powerful than what I'm asking
for, by letting you look for a different string for each window.

Greetings,
Paolo


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jasper]

The request seems a bit complicated in the light of the applications function.
If BBedit has it it's probably only people doing a lot of text editing need it.
But for Camino this seems a bit to much.

I'd say WONTFIX

Comment 2

[Paolo Tramannoni]

And what about the idea of having a different find string for each window (as in
Internet Explorer)? I find it very useful.

Paolo

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> And what about the idea of having a different find string for each window (as in
> Internet Explorer)? I find it very useful.
> 
> Paolo

Even that seems a bit much. Using tabs, you can easily keep the same search
string across multiple tabs. And, while this is techincally feasible, it's not
something that seems to keep with the simplicity of Mac OS X. IE may do it, but
IE wasn't the best written OS X app and hardly conformed to any of it's practices.

WONTFIXing.

Comment 4

[Paolo Tramannoni]

Hi,
While IE might not be the best application for OS X (otherwise, there wasn't any
need for use Camino), some ideas could be nice. The different Find strings for
each window is very handy.

Please let me do another example. I'm doing a research on the "infinite". At one
point, it comes to my mind that I could also give a look at the "circle", the
ancient symbol for infinite. So, I've a window where I'm looking for "infinite",
and a parallel one where I'm looking for "circle".

I find this my common way of doing researches. I've a very "analogic" mind. With
Camino, I must re-enter the find string each time I go to a different window.
Not so with the method seen in IE. Camino is so much superior under all other
aspects, that I would prefer to see somehting like this implemented in it,
rather than sticking with IE.

Paolo