*real* type-ahead find

[Brendan Sweeney]

On Oct 7, 2004, at 7:09 AM, Neil Lee wrote:

> I think this and the link finding feature should be combined (as it is 
> in the Mozilla browsers, and the Saft plugin for Safari) so that links 
> *and* text are found together, and you can follow a link by hitting 
> return if it's highlighted.
>
> There also should be a preference (or defaults, if that's considered 
> better) to either enable "/" as a trigger, or to automatically allow 
> this to start working when you start typing (as the links find feature 
> works now).
>
> At the moment (which you probably know) hitting cmd+g to move to the 
> next match doesn't work, but besides that, and the ability to find and 
> follow links, this is a very welcome addition (and gives me one reason 
> less to go back to Firefox or Safari).

I would rather keep the / required, but I'd like it if it required a 
return to submit it.  cmd-g I'd like to keep with cmd-f (I oftentimes 
keep a term there to search for over multiple pages, I don't want it 
changing when i hit /)  hitting / and then return should go to the next 
instance of your last slash search.  Also, I'd really appreciate it if 
when your focus was in the / field disable the delete moving to the 
previous page.

~BS
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