Hi,

> On ven., 2009-11-27 at 16:09 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
>> Package: epdfview
>> Version: 0.1.7-2
>> Severity: minor
>>
>> I wanted to search for an http link in a PDF.  So I typed
>> "/http://foo";, where the first slash opens up the find toolbar at the
>> bottom of the screen.
>>
>> Unfortunately, because the / is bound within that toolbar, I can see
>> no way to search for a string containing a /.  I tried ^Q/ and ^V/ and
>> \/ to escape the slash, and I tried using a period (in case it was
>> doing regex matching).  These didn't work.
>
> Yep, confirmed, I can't do it either.
>>
>> I suppose I could type Ctrl+<digits> if I knew the unicode codepoint
>> for a slash...  Hmm, apparently I can't type any codepoints that way
>> -- maybe that trick only works if I'm inside a desktop environment
>> (I'm not; I'm running epdfview straight from xinit).
>
> Yeah, I think it's related because here (under Xfce) I can type the
> control codes.
>
> Jordi, as you see above, the '/' character can't be entered in the
> search bar because it'll be used as the “open search bar and select the
> text” even when the focus is already on the search bar.

OK, I didn't test it until now :-D

I modified the search bar to disable the "/" as an accelerator while the
search bar is visible, this way we can enter "/" as text.  Once the bar is
closed the accelerator is restored to its original value.

Thanks for reporting!

Regards,

Jordi



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