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Add (page) search function
I love working with TiddlyDesktop.
One situation where I feel a //real// browser superior over TiddlyDesktop is, when it comes to large Tiddlers and searching for some key word on the currently visible page.
It would be helpful to have a search function in TiddlyDesktop also.
I second this. TiddlyDesktop works smooth.
Keyword search within the open tiddler(s) is the only major feature I'm missing in TiddlyDesktop.
:+1: from me. This would be a workaround for the lack of search highlight inside wikis.
Ok. Would you agree that it's an important feature but you only don't have the time for implementing it? If so do you think you will find the time some day? Not to put preasure on it, just for knowing what to expect. :)
Actually, @jekuno it's just an example of a broad category of common browser features that are not supported in Chromium, the open source browser on which TiddlyDesktop is based. Others include page zoom, spell checking and video playback.
Implementing these features is not very satisfying because it's slog to duplicate something that already exists. So I'm unlikely to be motivated to implement this myself. There is nothing to stop other people contributing a fix, of course.
In practice, all these issues are probably best addressed by migrating to an alternative to nw.js, the underlying framework that drives TiddlyDesktop.
@Jermolene Thanks for your answer! I understand that (and didn't know that it's not supported by the underlying framework).
How I will deal with it:
- Try to keep the tiddlers as short as possible (following the TiddlyWiki philosophy)
- Open the wiki in a browser if I really need to find a tiddler by its content
- Hope that somebody from the TiddlyWiki community will contribute a fix one day
- Anybody out there?
- Hope that Chromium will support it natively one day (or a good alternative to nw.js shows up)
Keep up your good work!
Hi @jekuno I should add that of the missing "browser-like" features, page search is significantly easier to implement than spell-checking (#32).
Might those two links be of any help to add a page search function?
- https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/3283#issuecomment-122886208
- https://github.com/timdown/rangy/wiki/Highlighter-Module
Thank you for your great work on this program. Here just to let you know that this is a much needed function, as my Tiddlers tend to be quite long due to the nature of some of the entries.
You can also use the Codemirror Search&Replace from the official repository: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/tree/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror-search-replace (can be directly installed from the ControlPanel)
After installing the CodeMirror _Editor and CoreMirror AddOn: Search and Replace plugins using the ControlPanel in TiddlyDesktop, nothing happens when I hit one of the keyboard shortcuts for search and replace. What additional setup is needed to make this work within TiddlyDesktop?
