On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:09:35AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > 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.?
I doubt that's what he meant. After all, though it /does/ depend on how your browser is, it's the browser that is performing the search in the first place: it knows where all the line breaks are. Myself, I'd probably never use ^ in firefox (unless the document were actually plaintext); but there's scads of times when I would've wanted basic regex support... The "dot" character, character classes, maybe word boundaries... -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
