philc
Incremental search and highlights
Are there any plans to adopt commands for incremental search and highlighting such as
set incsearch
set hlsearch
?
Browsers don't allow extensions to call their inner functionality of highlighting all matched text, while it's too complex and difficult to simulate such a highlighting style by Vimium itself.
There is an extension which works in a similar way. If it helps - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/selection-highlighter/nepmkgohgoagfgcoegjaggacodcpdibj
The extension is hosted on https://github.com/neaumusic/selection-highlighter, and it creates new DOM elements to add styles to matched text. This behavior may break some pages - this may be why it has a blacklistedHosts.
Well, this issue is somehow a duplicate of #591, and there seems no perfect API to do so.
Can it be done as an optional feature with the same blacklist as vimium already has?
Add usecase why this is helpful: I need to view log file from logging apps, the log is usually large. Chrome default search can highlight all search appearances, and also has outline in the right scroll bar, it makes is easy to navigate the log. I don't quite use vimium search function because of lacking this feature.
I absolutely love this extension. I think it'd be helpful if the other matched searched results were kept highlighted even when they're not the activated matched result. I hope this finds its way into a future update.
