[pmwiki-users] Text box search

Martin Fick fick at fgm.com
Mon Dec 5 16:26:34 CST 2005


Searching (and auto spell checking) work gret in konqueror. :)

-Martin

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:11:18PM -0500, Henrik Bechmann wrote:
> Waylan et. al.
> 
> I got a response from the Firefox forum. Not being able to search in a 
> textarea is considered a bug (with a considerable amount of serious 
> flaming going on apparently), but won't be fixed for a while. One of the 
> developers in bugzilla says it's "on the radar" for Firefox 2.0. There 
> are no extensions that I have been able to find that are credible.
> 
> In the meantime, I tried search in IE 6, and it searches in an edit box 
> (textarea) just fine. Ugh.
> 
> Here's the bug area for Firefox if anyone is interested:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252371#c123
> 
> The moral of the story: use IE for complex wiki postings. Double Ugh.
> 
> - Henrik
> 
> Henrik Bechmann
> www.osscommons.ca
> www.bechmannsoftware.com
> Webmaster, www.dufferinpark.ca
> 
> 
> 
> Waylan Limberg wrote:
> 
> >On 12/5/05, Henrik Bechmann <henrik at bechmannsoftware.com> wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>All,
> >>
> >>Is there any way, while editing wikitext in a textbox, to search the
> >>textbox? (I'm using Firefox)
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >Hmm, I'm thinking this would have to be a browser feature. Its
> >possable there already is a FF extension that does this. try searching
> >the extensions. As a site specific thing, it may or may not be doable
> >with javascript, but I don't see this as specific to PmWiki. Perhaps
> >try a web search. Or maybe someone else here is aware of such a
> >script.
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >----
> >Waylan Limberg
> >waylan at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> 
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