[vox-tech] Re: vox-tech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

Micah Cowan micah at cowan.name
Thu Feb 3 18:48:18 PST 2005


David Hummel wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:36:06AM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote:
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>>Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez wrote:
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>>>Actually, the Mozilla Foundation folks are all fairly geeky-which
>>>explains the vi command.  On the other hand, this same text search
>>>feature is available using Control-F (Or Command-F on Macs).  Though
>>>that doesn't excuse the lack of documentation you mention for this
>>>particular feature...
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>>Such is not the case with the regular Mozilla browser; just Firefox
>>AFAICT (I have just recently used the latest versions of both).
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>What are you replying to?
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>If it's:
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>>>On the other hand, this same text search feature is available using
>>>Control-F (Or Command-F on Macs).
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It is.

>Then no, CTRL-F does indeed produce a text search box in Mozilla (1.7.3
>in my case).  The vi-style / find-as-you-type feature is also there.
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But it's not "this same text search feature." Firefox has control-F 
mapped to a (IMO) better version of the vi-style thing.



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