Please support 'find-in-page' (ctrl-f)

[ittayd]

It is hard to find text. The Context Search plugin helps, but when the tiddler is opened, it is still hard to find the text

[ittayd]

Maybe this helps: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/3283

[Jermolene]

Hi @ittayd I would like to offer find-in-page functionality in TiddlyDesktop but it's non-trivial at the moment. The technique you link is based on the webview element while TiddlyDesktop still uses iframes; I've run into problems in the past trying to change over.

[jekuno]

You can use the Codemirror Search&Replace from the official repository which scrolls to the search result and highlights it: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/tree/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror-search-replace (can be directly installed from the ControlPanel)

Also see #21

[cawoodm]

I am reasonably confident Ctrl+F should work here since it works OOTB with AppJS which is also just a Chrome wrapper. This kind of simple "search my screen" functionality should be a must with a tool like TW.

[zaszlo]

2019 still no search in TiddlyWiki desktop, I am and was with TiddlyWiki since the times it was savable from FF but then moved along to TiddlyDesktop to find it uncomfortable mainly because of this... Searching in a window full of text is a must. I already started to slowly move some of my notes to another platform. Still looking forward for this "feature."

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I just found out https://twcloud.github.io/tw5-dropbox/ ... now this is a good alternative for me, yay! Left TiddlyDesktop.

[Jermolene]

Apparently nw.js will soon support find-in-page natively, but in the meantime we may be able to use this add-on library:

https://github.com/nwutils/find-in-nw

[cawoodm]

You might wanna move to Electron - that seems to be the way the wind is blowing.

[eiro10]

See https://nwjs.io/blog/nw2-mode/ and https://nwjs.io/blog/v0.42.4/

[pmario]

There is a new plugin, that may help: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/s3AVhRKVXcs

[Alexander2971]

Hi Jermolene,

while I can hack a little and used to program too, I cannot make your suggestion work for me (Win64). Could you maybe compile a new version that includes your suggestion? Or how to hack it into an existing "classic" Wiki.

I use my Wiki as sort of note taking and have hundreds of topics in it and while the search works it delivers too many results. If I could use the search only for the windows/tiddlers (and the index) open it would solve my problems...

BTW Thank you for the effort and good work, highly love my Wiki...

Apparently nw.js will soon support find-in-page natively, but in the meantime we may be able to use this add-on library:

https://github.com/nwutils/find-in-nw