[vox-tech] Firefox "find" utility

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Tue Jun 20 11:09:35 PDT 2006


On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:46:05AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> I find the FF find feature to be weaker than what I've come to expect from
> Unix tools.  For example, it would be really nice to specify regex type
> syntax, like
> 
>    ^foo
> 
> to find the substring "foo" abutted against the left margin.


Wouldn't that depend
on how wide your brower
is and how things are
word-wrapping? ;^)

I guess maybe you meant "at the beginning of a paragraph," "in the leftmost
cell of a table," "just after a <br> line break", etc.?


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