On Tue 20 Jun 06, 11:20 AM, Micah J. Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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.
Yeah, that's 100% exactly what I meant. > 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... Stop it! You're making me drool... ;) It's weird. Stuff like this makes me realize how spoiled I am in terms of using great software. Basic regex support in FF find just seems like something you'd expect to see. Pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
