http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321145
There's this sort of old Unixy tradition of making text viewers bring up the find dialog or toolbar when you hit the / key, just as if you had hit Ctrl+F. Epiphany 1.8.2 has the following behavior: * Typing anything but slash or space starts type-ahead find on link text only. Once you're in this mode, slashes and spaces just append to your search string. * Typing a slash starts type-ahead find on all the text in the page. It doesn't bring up a find toolbar or anything. It just shows what you're searching for in the status bar. * Typing space scrolls. * Typing Ctrl+F brings up the find toolbar, which does not do type-ahead find. Yelp has the following behavior right now: * Typing anything but a space starts type-ahead find on link text only. Once you're in this mode, spaces just append to your search string. * Typing space scrolls. * Typing Ctrl+F brings up the find toolbar, which *does* do type-ahead find. I don't like that slash and Ctrl+F are different kids of search in Epiphany. I do, however, find link text search very useful from time to time. Having slash bring up the find toolbar in Yelp would conflict with type-ahead on links whenever there's some link text with slashes in it. But then, maybe I'm just making too much out of an odd corner case. The whole slash thing probably doesn't matter to many "average" users (read: not *nix geeks). But those pesky vi users just love it. Thoughts? -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
