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find mode in vimium c pdf extension
Describe the bug
-when using find mode in vimium c pdf extension, find does not find all possible occurrences of a word. To determine this i used the browser's find function and compared the word count to with vimiums find mode word count.
-in pdf find mode will not find a multi word search if the multiple words start on one line and end in a new line. this is especially troublesome in regex find mode. since using ".*" will only match strings in a single line rather than strings spanning multiple lines.
To Reproduce using a many paged pdf textbook. use attached pdf to examine these issues, and compatible vimium c pdf extension
Browser, OS and Vimium C versions
- Browser name: chrome
- Browser version: Version 118.0.5993.124 (Official Build) (64-bit)
- Vimium C version: Version 1.99.99
- vimium C compatible PDF extension version: Version 2.15.349
- OS name and version: chrome os Version 118.0.5993.124 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Sorry but this is impossible to fix this behavior in such a "small" web-extension like Vimium C.
The root cause of your issue is:
- in PDF file, there're only "blocks of text", and every "line" which you see may include 1 or more blocks
- as a result, there's no reliable way to detect whether a line and a below line belong to a same paragraph
- I guess Chrome has implemented a very big and complicated function to improve its search effects
- but Vimium C, as a JavaScript-implemented web-extension, can not access the function
