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You mean viewer like in "webbrowser"? Or am I missunderstaning you
completely?
The article sums up really well what I like with the search functionality
in Firefox (which basically is incremental search without locking the rest
of the program).
Here is a quote:
The advantages of incremental search are numerous:
* _There aren't any dialogs in your way._ The search interface is
blissfully dialog-less. There's nothing getting in the way of you and
your search results. You can search, find, and resume working with minimal
interruption. This is arguably handled even better in Visual Studio, where
the interactive search indicator is a cursor change after you press
CTRL+I.
* It wastes less of your time. The search begins as soon as the first
character is typed. You know immediately when you've got a good enough
match and you can stop typing.
* Mistakes are clearly evident. If you mistype something, you'll know
that immediately, too. Press backspace to correct the typo and you're back
to the previous match.
* _It's interactive._ Immediate search feedback alows you to adjust
your search strategy in real time. The net result is far better searches
than you'd ever get from a traditional OK-then-try-again dialog box
cycle.
_After you've worked with incremental search for a few hours, you'll
probably wonder why incremental search isn't included as a standard
feature in every single Windows application._
The way incremental search is done on Pspad just doesn't make it as
useful and nice to use as it could be.
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