Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jerry]

Sorry for the slow reply.
Jerry

On Dec 12, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote:

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 On 12/11/13, 24:30 , Jerry wrote:
 
 On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de
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 Hi
 
 Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the
 search term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where
 a certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
 anything in the search dialog.
 
 I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the 
 compiled document.
 
 Is there something I have overlooked?
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rainer
 
 This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another
 function that achieves similar results and in some ways is better.
 
 It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, 
 pressing a specified key combination takes you to the next result
 no matter if the Find dialog window is open or not--there is no
 need to constantly mess with the Find dialog or remove your fingers
 from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a button.
 
 Agreed - this would be very useful and time saving.
 
 
 To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another
 key combination.
 
 Also agreed - forward and backward search by keyboard would be very
 useful.
 
 One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is that
 the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach,
 scrolling to the next or previous find result can be difficult
 especially when the results are far apart.
 
 Both are useful - It is advantageous to see all occurrences
 highlighted to assess the context of the search term, but moving to
 the next one by keyboard shortcut would be a very useful addition to
 this - they would supplement each other. See e.g. the search in
 Firefox: one Button which says Highlight All and one to search
 backward and forward - just also via keyboard shortcuts.

Agreed--I forgot to mention that this is the way many recent OS X programs 
work. For example, here is a screen shot from Apple's TextEdit. I'm not crazy 
about darkening the background when the multiple selection is active but I 
suppose that that is the programmer's option. (I hope this list allows 
attachments--there should be a screen shot right here.) Hitting Command-G moves 
the yellow-highlighted selection to the next of.



PastedGraphic-1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


 
 
 When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass
 selected text to the Find function with still another key
 combination (without the need to copy the selected text, open the
 Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click some more to
 search forward or backward), the searching process becomes
 unbelievably streamlined.
 
 Sounds great - effectively a search in the background. If pone wants
 to see a dialog, just press a different key combination.

Right. And on OS X, the Find buffer, if that is a good term, is global, 
across all applications. So you can select text in one program, hit Command-E, 
switch to another program and hit (Shift-)Command-G to find the next (previous) 
occurrence of the text. BTW these are the long-standardized keyboard shortcuts 
on OS X and are essentially universal--Microsoft and I suppose a few others 
with long-term cross-platform programs still insist on doing it their own way. 
But note that OS X users can easily modify the keyboard shortcuts of nearly all 
programs using the Keyboard System Preference. Not sure if this works on e.g. 
Word but it certainly works on Qt programs including LyX.
 
 
 This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X
 programs from the beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been
 present in pre-OS X OS's from Apple (I can't recall for sure).
 
 Interesting - I am using Mac, but was never aware of this - what are
 the shortcuts there?

See the above remark. They are described on the Find menu on every Mac 
program. 8^)

 
 
 Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to
 be redundant, but I believe this is a very useful approach (and
 not exclusive to the highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed
 by OS X users. And it can be implemented in such a way that the
 more laborious approach is available in its current form--that's
 the way OS X does it, with sort of the long way and the power
 user way both available.
 
 +1
 
 This definitely sounds like a useful GSoC project?
 
 Rainer
 
 
 Jerry
 
 
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 Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
 
 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa
 
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 Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jerry]

Sorry for the slow reply.
Jerry

On Dec 12, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote:

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 On 12/11/13, 24:30 , Jerry wrote:
 
 On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de
 wrote:
 
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 Hi
 
 Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the
 search term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where
 a certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
 anything in the search dialog.
 
 I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the 
 compiled document.
 
 Is there something I have overlooked?
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rainer
 
 This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another
 function that achieves similar results and in some ways is better.
 
 It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, 
 pressing a specified key combination takes you to the next result
 no matter if the Find dialog window is open or not--there is no
 need to constantly mess with the Find dialog or remove your fingers
 from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a button.
 
 Agreed - this would be very useful and time saving.
 
 
 To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another
 key combination.
 
 Also agreed - forward and backward search by keyboard would be very
 useful.
 
 One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is that
 the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach,
 scrolling to the next or previous find result can be difficult
 especially when the results are far apart.
 
 Both are useful - It is advantageous to see all occurrences
 highlighted to assess the context of the search term, but moving to
 the next one by keyboard shortcut would be a very useful addition to
 this - they would supplement each other. See e.g. the search in
 Firefox: one Button which says Highlight All and one to search
 backward and forward - just also via keyboard shortcuts.

Agreed--I forgot to mention that this is the way many recent OS X programs 
work. For example, here is a screen shot from Apple's TextEdit. I'm not crazy 
about darkening the background when the multiple selection is active but I 
suppose that that is the programmer's option. (I hope this list allows 
attachments--there should be a screen shot right here.) Hitting Command-G moves 
the yellow-highlighted selection to the next of.



PastedGraphic-1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


 
 
 When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass
 selected text to the Find function with still another key
 combination (without the need to copy the selected text, open the
 Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click some more to
 search forward or backward), the searching process becomes
 unbelievably streamlined.
 
 Sounds great - effectively a search in the background. If pone wants
 to see a dialog, just press a different key combination.

Right. And on OS X, the Find buffer, if that is a good term, is global, 
across all applications. So you can select text in one program, hit Command-E, 
switch to another program and hit (Shift-)Command-G to find the next (previous) 
occurrence of the text. BTW these are the long-standardized keyboard shortcuts 
on OS X and are essentially universal--Microsoft and I suppose a few others 
with long-term cross-platform programs still insist on doing it their own way. 
But note that OS X users can easily modify the keyboard shortcuts of nearly all 
programs using the Keyboard System Preference. Not sure if this works on e.g. 
Word but it certainly works on Qt programs including LyX.
 
 
 This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X
 programs from the beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been
 present in pre-OS X OS's from Apple (I can't recall for sure).
 
 Interesting - I am using Mac, but was never aware of this - what are
 the shortcuts there?

See the above remark. They are described on the Find menu on every Mac 
program. 8^)

 
 
 Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to
 be redundant, but I believe this is a very useful approach (and
 not exclusive to the highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed
 by OS X users. And it can be implemented in such a way that the
 more laborious approach is available in its current form--that's
 the way OS X does it, with sort of the long way and the power
 user way both available.
 
 +1
 
 This definitely sounds like a useful GSoC project?
 
 Rainer
 
 
 Jerry
 
 
 - -- 
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
 Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
 
 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa
 
 Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44
 
 Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44
 
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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jerry]

Sorry for the slow reply.
Jerry

On Dec 12, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:

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> 
> 
> 
> On 12/11/13, 24:30 , Jerry wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug 
>> wrote:
>> 
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>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the
>>> search term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where
>>> a certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
>>> anything in the search dialog.
>>> 
>>> I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the 
>>> compiled document.
>>> 
>>> Is there something I have overlooked?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Rainer
>>> 
>> This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another
>> function that achieves similar results and in some ways is better.
>> 
>> It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, 
>> pressing a specified key combination takes you to the next result
>> no matter if the Find dialog window is open or not--there is no
>> need to constantly mess with the Find dialog or remove your fingers
>> from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a button.
> 
> Agreed - this would be very useful and time saving.
> 
>> 
>> To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another
>> key combination.
> 
> Also agreed - forward and backward search by keyboard would be very
> useful.
> 
>> One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is that
>> the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach,
>> scrolling to the next or previous find result can be difficult
>> especially when the results are far apart.
> 
> Both are useful - It is advantageous to see all occurrences
> highlighted to assess the context of the search term, but moving to
> the next one by keyboard shortcut would be a very useful addition to
> this - they would supplement each other. See e.g. the search in
> Firefox: one Button which says "Highlight All" and one to search
> backward and forward - just also via keyboard shortcuts.

Agreed--I forgot to mention that this is the way many recent OS X programs 
work. For example, here is a screen shot from Apple's TextEdit. I'm not crazy 
about darkening the background when the multiple selection is active but I 
suppose that that is the programmer's option. (I hope this list allows 
attachments--there should be a screen shot right here.) Hitting Command-G moves 
the yellow-highlighted selection to the next "of."



PastedGraphic-1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


> 
>> 
>> When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass
>> selected text to the Find function with still another key
>> combination (without the need to copy the selected text, open the
>> Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click some more to
>> search forward or backward), the searching process becomes
>> unbelievably streamlined.
> 
> Sounds great - effectively a search in the background. If pone wants
> to see a dialog, just press a different key combination.

Right. And on OS X, the "Find buffer," if that is a good term, is global, 
across all applications. So you can select text in one program, hit Command-E, 
switch to another program and hit (Shift-)Command-G to find the next (previous) 
occurrence of the text. BTW these are the long-standardized keyboard shortcuts 
on OS X and are essentially universal--Microsoft and I suppose a few others 
with long-term cross-platform programs still insist on doing it their own way. 
But note that OS X users can easily modify the keyboard shortcuts of nearly all 
programs using the Keyboard System Preference. Not sure if this works on e.g. 
Word but it certainly works on Qt programs including LyX.
> 
>> 
>> This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X
>> programs from the beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been
>> present in pre-OS X OS's from Apple (I can't recall for sure).
> 
> Interesting - I am using Mac, but was never aware of this - what are
> the shortcuts there?

See the above remark. They are described on the "Find" menu on every Mac 
program. 8^)

> 
>> 
>> Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to
>> be redundant, but I believe this is a very useful approach (and
>> not exclusive to the highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed
>> by OS X users. And it can be implemented in such a way that the
>> more laborious approach is available in its current form--that's
>> the way OS X does it, with sort of the "long" way and the "power
>> user" way both available.
> 
> +1
> 
> This definitely sounds like a useful GSoC project?
> 
> Rainer
> 
>> 
>> Jerry
>> 
> 
> - -- 
> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
> 
> Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
> Stellenbosch University
> South Africa
> 
> Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
> Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 

Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 12/11/13, 24:30 , Jerry wrote:
 
 On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de
 wrote:
 
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 Hi
 
 Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the
 search term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where
 a certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
 anything in the search dialog.
 
 I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the 
 compiled document.
 
 Is there something I have overlooked?
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rainer
 
 This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another
 function that achieves similar results and in some ways is better.
 
 It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, 
 pressing a specified key combination takes you to the next result
 no matter if the Find dialog window is open or not--there is no
 need to constantly mess with the Find dialog or remove your fingers
 from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a button.

Agreed - this would be very useful and time saving.

 
 To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another
 key combination.

Also agreed - forward and backward search by keyboard would be very
useful.

 One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is that
 the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach,
 scrolling to the next or previous find result can be difficult
 especially when the results are far apart.

Both are useful - It is advantageous to see all occurrences
highlighted to assess the context of the search term, but moving to
the next one by keyboard shortcut would be a very useful addition to
this - they would supplement each other. See e.g. the search in
Firefox: one Button which says Highlight All and one to search
backward and forward - just also via keyboard shortcuts.

 
 When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass
 selected text to the Find function with still another key
 combination (without the need to copy the selected text, open the
 Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click some more to
 search forward or backward), the searching process becomes
 unbelievably streamlined.

Sounds great - effectively a search in the background. If pone wants
to see a dialog, just press a different key combination.

 
 This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X
 programs from the beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been
 present in pre-OS X OS's from Apple (I can't recall for sure).

Interesting - I am using Mac, but was never aware of this - what are
the shortcuts there?

 
 Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to
 be redundant, but I believe this is a very useful approach (and
 not exclusive to the highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed
 by OS X users. And it can be implemented in such a way that the
 more laborious approach is available in its current form--that's
 the way OS X does it, with sort of the long way and the power
 user way both available.

+1

This definitely sounds like a useful GSoC project?

Rainer

 
 Jerry
 

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 12/11/13, 24:30 , Jerry wrote:
 
 On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de
 wrote:
 
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 Hi
 
 Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the
 search term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where
 a certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
 anything in the search dialog.
 
 I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the 
 compiled document.
 
 Is there something I have overlooked?
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rainer
 
 This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another
 function that achieves similar results and in some ways is better.
 
 It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, 
 pressing a specified key combination takes you to the next result
 no matter if the Find dialog window is open or not--there is no
 need to constantly mess with the Find dialog or remove your fingers
 from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a button.

Agreed - this would be very useful and time saving.

 
 To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another
 key combination.

Also agreed - forward and backward search by keyboard would be very
useful.

 One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is that
 the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach,
 scrolling to the next or previous find result can be difficult
 especially when the results are far apart.

Both are useful - It is advantageous to see all occurrences
highlighted to assess the context of the search term, but moving to
the next one by keyboard shortcut would be a very useful addition to
this - they would supplement each other. See e.g. the search in
Firefox: one Button which says Highlight All and one to search
backward and forward - just also via keyboard shortcuts.

 
 When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass
 selected text to the Find function with still another key
 combination (without the need to copy the selected text, open the
 Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click some more to
 search forward or backward), the searching process becomes
 unbelievably streamlined.

Sounds great - effectively a search in the background. If pone wants
to see a dialog, just press a different key combination.

 
 This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X
 programs from the beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been
 present in pre-OS X OS's from Apple (I can't recall for sure).

Interesting - I am using Mac, but was never aware of this - what are
the shortcuts there?

 
 Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to
 be redundant, but I believe this is a very useful approach (and
 not exclusive to the highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed
 by OS X users. And it can be implemented in such a way that the
 more laborious approach is available in its current form--that's
 the way OS X does it, with sort of the long way and the power
 user way both available.

+1

This definitely sounds like a useful GSoC project?

Rainer

 
 Jerry
 

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 12/11/13, 24:30 , Jerry wrote:
> 
> On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug 
> wrote:
> 
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>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the
>> search term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where
>> a certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
>> anything in the search dialog.
>> 
>> I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the 
>> compiled document.
>> 
>> Is there something I have overlooked?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Rainer
>> 
> This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another
> function that achieves similar results and in some ways is better.
> 
> It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, 
> pressing a specified key combination takes you to the next result
> no matter if the Find dialog window is open or not--there is no
> need to constantly mess with the Find dialog or remove your fingers
> from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a button.

Agreed - this would be very useful and time saving.

> 
> To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another
> key combination.

Also agreed - forward and backward search by keyboard would be very
useful.

> One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is that
> the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach,
> scrolling to the next or previous find result can be difficult
> especially when the results are far apart.

Both are useful - It is advantageous to see all occurrences
highlighted to assess the context of the search term, but moving to
the next one by keyboard shortcut would be a very useful addition to
this - they would supplement each other. See e.g. the search in
Firefox: one Button which says "Highlight All" and one to search
backward and forward - just also via keyboard shortcuts.

> 
> When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass
> selected text to the Find function with still another key
> combination (without the need to copy the selected text, open the
> Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click some more to
> search forward or backward), the searching process becomes
> unbelievably streamlined.

Sounds great - effectively a search in the background. If pone wants
to see a dialog, just press a different key combination.

> 
> This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X
> programs from the beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been
> present in pre-OS X OS's from Apple (I can't recall for sure).

Interesting - I am using Mac, but was never aware of this - what are
the shortcuts there?

> 
> Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to
> be redundant, but I believe this is a very useful approach (and
> not exclusive to the highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed
> by OS X users. And it can be implemented in such a way that the
> more laborious approach is available in its current form--that's
> the way OS X does it, with sort of the "long" way and the "power
> user" way both available.

+1

This definitely sounds like a useful GSoC project?

Rainer

> 
> Jerry
> 

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

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Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hi

Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
search dialog.

I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
document.

Is there something I have overlooked?

Cheers,

Rainer

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug
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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

10/12/2013 12:04, Rainer M Krug:

Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
search dialog.

I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
document.

Is there something I have overlooked?



It is not possible yet, and would be useful with a find-as-you-type 
toolbar (that we do not have either).


This might make a worthwhile GSoC for next year.

JMarc

Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hash: SHA1



On 12/10/13, 14:28 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 10/12/2013 12:04, Rainer M Krug:
 Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search
 term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a
 certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
 anything in the search dialog.
 
 I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the
 compiled document.
 
 Is there something I have overlooked?
 
 
 It is not possible yet,

Pity.

 and would be useful with a find-as-you-type toolbar (that we do not
 have either).

find-as-you-type toolbar would be really nice, but not that essential
for this highlight feature to be useful.

 
 This might make a worthwhile GSoC for next year.

+1

Cheers,

Rainer

 
 JMarc

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug
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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jerry]

On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 Hi
 
 Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
 e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
 occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
 search dialog.
 
 I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
 document.
 
 Is there something I have overlooked?
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rainer
 
This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another function that 
achieves similar results and in some ways is better.

It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, pressing a 
specified key combination takes you to the next result no matter if the Find 
dialog window is open or not--there is no need to constantly mess with the Find 
dialog or remove your fingers from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a 
button.

To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another key 
combination. One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is 
that the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach, scrolling 
to the next or previous find result can be difficult especially when the 
results are far apart.

When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass selected text to 
the Find function with still another key combination (without the need to copy 
the selected text, open the Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click 
some more to search forward or backward), the searching process becomes 
unbelievably streamlined.

This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X programs from the 
beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been present in pre-OS X OS's from 
Apple (I can't recall for sure).

Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to be redundant, 
but I believe this is a very useful approach (and not exclusive to the 
highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed by OS X users. And it can be 
implemented in such a way that the more laborious approach is available in its 
current form--that's the way OS X does it, with sort of the long way and the 
power user way both available.

Jerry

Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hash: SHA1

Hi

Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
search dialog.

I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
document.

Is there something I have overlooked?

Cheers,

Rainer

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug
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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

10/12/2013 12:04, Rainer M Krug:

Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
search dialog.

I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
document.

Is there something I have overlooked?



It is not possible yet, and would be useful with a find-as-you-type 
toolbar (that we do not have either).


This might make a worthwhile GSoC for next year.

JMarc

Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hash: SHA1



On 12/10/13, 14:28 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 10/12/2013 12:04, Rainer M Krug:
 Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search
 term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a
 certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
 anything in the search dialog.
 
 I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the
 compiled document.
 
 Is there something I have overlooked?
 
 
 It is not possible yet,

Pity.

 and would be useful with a find-as-you-type toolbar (that we do not
 have either).

find-as-you-type toolbar would be really nice, but not that essential
for this highlight feature to be useful.

 
 This might make a worthwhile GSoC for next year.

+1

Cheers,

Rainer

 
 JMarc

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug
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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jerry]

On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug rai...@krugs.de wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 Hi
 
 Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
 e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
 occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
 search dialog.
 
 I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
 document.
 
 Is there something I have overlooked?
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rainer
 
This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another function that 
achieves similar results and in some ways is better.

It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, pressing a 
specified key combination takes you to the next result no matter if the Find 
dialog window is open or not--there is no need to constantly mess with the Find 
dialog or remove your fingers from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a 
button.

To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another key 
combination. One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is 
that the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach, scrolling 
to the next or previous find result can be difficult especially when the 
results are far apart.

When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass selected text to 
the Find function with still another key combination (without the need to copy 
the selected text, open the Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click 
some more to search forward or backward), the searching process becomes 
unbelievably streamlined.

This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X programs from the 
beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been present in pre-OS X OS's from 
Apple (I can't recall for sure).

Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to be redundant, 
but I believe this is a very useful approach (and not exclusive to the 
highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed by OS X users. And it can be 
implemented in such a way that the more laborious approach is available in its 
current form--that's the way OS X does it, with sort of the long way and the 
power user way both available.

Jerry

Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi

Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
search dialog.

I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
document.

Is there something I have overlooked?

Cheers,

Rainer

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug
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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

10/12/2013 12:04, Rainer M Krug:

Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
search dialog.

I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
document.

Is there something I have overlooked?



It is not possible yet, and would be useful with a find-as-you-type 
toolbar (that we do not have either).


This might make a worthwhile GSoC for next year.

JMarc

Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 12/10/13, 14:28 , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> 10/12/2013 12:04, Rainer M Krug:
>> Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search
>> term, e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a
>> certain term occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find
>> anything in the search dialog.
>> 
>> I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the
>> compiled document.
>> 
>> Is there something I have overlooked?
> 
> 
> It is not possible yet,

Pity.

> and would be useful with a find-as-you-type toolbar (that we do not
> have either).

find-as-you-type toolbar would be really nice, but not that essential
for this highlight feature to be useful.

> 
> This might make a worthwhile GSoC for next year.

+1

Cheers,

Rainer

> 
> JMarc

- -- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax :   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug
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Re: Search - highlight of all occurrences of search term on display?

[Jerry]

On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi
> 
> Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term,
> e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term
> occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the
> search dialog.
> 
> I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled
> document.
> 
> Is there something I have overlooked?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
> 
This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another function that 
achieves similar results and in some ways is better.

It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, pressing a 
specified key combination takes you to the next result no matter if the Find 
dialog window is open or not--there is no need to constantly mess with the Find 
dialog or remove your fingers from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a 
button.

To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another key 
combination. One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is 
that the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach, scrolling 
to the next or previous find result can be difficult especially when the 
results are far apart.

When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass selected text to 
the Find function with still another key combination (without the need to copy 
the selected text, open the Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click 
some more to search forward or backward), the searching process becomes 
unbelievably streamlined.

This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X programs from the 
beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been present in pre-OS X OS's from 
Apple (I can't recall for sure).

Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to be redundant, 
but I believe this is a very useful approach (and not exclusive to the 
highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed by OS X users. And it can be 
implemented in such a way that the more laborious approach is available in its 
current form--that's the way OS X does it, with sort of the "long" way and the 
"power user" way both available.

Jerry