On Dec 27, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't check my system right now, but this doesn't seem like wrong behavior. > > Presumably when you start searching for something, you know what word > you're looking for.
I may not be looking for a word based on its prefix. I might be looking for "burger" on a restaurant page and expect "hamburger" to be found. In any case, I found the problem. Prefix search is an option in Safari that I had somehow selected. By clicking on the magnifying glass in the Find field I was able to select "Contains" rather than "Starts With". > I'm having a hard time thinking of a case where > I'd want a search to match within a word instead of just the > beginning. > > If you search for "he", do you really want every instance of "the" to > be highlighted? I don't see why this is an extraordinary expectation. Every other browser manages to do it. I would be shocked at any other app that provides a "Find" function that *only* searches by prefix. Pages? Keynote? Preview? Stickies? VoodooPad? Mail? Terminal? BBEdit? Any Twitter client? And... of course as I wrote that, I found that iCal searches by prefix. I might not mind so much except that as I type "ushi" it says "Event contains "ushi"", which is a lie -- it only searches for events containing words that begin with "ushi". Mail does the same thing and tells the same lie. --Andy > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Andy Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> This seems slightly familiar, like I might have seen it before, but part of >> me is struggling to believe it's actually possible. >> >> In Safari 7.0.1 I do Command-F and enter "inter". It matches "interesting" >> but *not* "winter". Really?? This has got to be just me, right? Maybe one >> of my installed extensions? Anybody else seeing this? >> >> --Andy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > > > -- > arno s hautala /-| [email protected] > > pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
