Improved Phobos dox

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Sep 16 03:47:28 PDT 2013


On 9/15/13 11:49 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Monday, 16 September 2013 at 01:44:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 9/15/13 11:25 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 18:02:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Vladimir, do you think you could easily implement such an incremental
>>>> search box (with autocompletion)?
>>>
>>> Sorry, that idea does not appeal to me either. Web browsers already have
>>> the function of searching within a page.
>>
>> But search boxes with autocomplete are vastly better.
>
> Search boxes with autocomplete are vastly better than the classical
> Ctrl+F dialog as implemented in Internet Explorer 6. Most browsers
> currently implement Ctrl+F as incremental search, which highlights
> results as you type.

Ctrl-F does not progressively adjust the list of search candidates - it 
can highlight only what's actually visible in the document.

Andrei


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