Re: electric search, incremental search, find as you type...

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John




"Matthew J. Miner" <mjm13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Whatever you call it (emacs calls it electric search, CodeWrite calls it
> incremental search, and Mozilla Firefox calls it find-as-you-type), it's a
> feature in which searching happens in "real time", as you type.
>
> You type "f", the cursor moves to the next f; add "i", and the system
> moves
> to the next fi, and so on, until you are satisfied.
>
> In emacs, for example, if I were trying to find "incremental", I would
> type
> Ctrl-Sinc, and, by the time I had typed the "c" I would likely be at the
> desired location. Way the heck a lot faster than typing, in Word,
> Ctrl-Fincremental, then hitting return.
>
> I've not been able to find this feature in Word (or Office, in general).
> Is
> it there (any version -- properly implemented, this is a feature for which
> I
> would definitely upgrade)?
>
> Thanks all!
> Regards,
> Matthew Miner
>
> P.S. I've actually considered writing a macro to do this. However, I've
> been
> unable to find a way to input characters, one at a time, in such a way
> that
> I can act on each character, one at a time (i.e., I specifically do NOT
> want
> a dialog box). In other words, once my "search feature" is invoked, it
> will
> collect characters (echoed to the status area) and move the cursor until
> the
> user ends the command.
>
> P.P.S In case it gets more people on board: emacs and FireFox both also
> highlight all the other instances of the search string on the screen; a
> feature I had originally thought too expensive to do. In fact, however, it
> works extremely well and is wonderfully useful. Even hilighting every
> instance of single characters has proven to be fast enough to be
> practical.
> If the next instance of <whatever-you-are-searching-for> is not the one in
> which you are interested, chances are you will see it nearby. And, by
> keeping dialog poxes ;-) off the screen, clutter is reduced, allowing you
> to
> focus on the task at hand, not how your system behaves.
>
>


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