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Bug 779105 - Cannot highlight more than one search term
Cannot highlight more than one search term
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: client
master
Other Linux
: High normal
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
wk2-fallout
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-02-23 00:39 UTC by Michael Gratton
Modified: 2019-03-08 21:51 UTC
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Description Michael Gratton 2017-02-23 00:39:56 UTC 
The WebKit2 API has changed how find works, making it difficult to highlight more than one search term.

Need to investigate how to convince it to do so, either using the new WK2 or by doing highlighting manually.
Comment 1 Federico Bruni 2017-02-28 16:03:31 UTC 
Nitpicking... If two or more search keywords are close to each other, both words are highlighted. The problem is when they are not close to each other.
Comment 2 Michael Gratton 2018-04-14 06:49:02 UTC 
This will probably require our own custom JS implementation, since neither the WebKitGTK API nor the DOM provides anything useful — Neither window.find() nor execCommand("findString") supports multiple string matching and neither are standardised, and the FindText API https://www.w3.org/TR/findtext/ is neither finalised nor implemented.

As such this requires some substantial work and hence won't make 0.12.
Comment 3 Michael Gratton 2019-03-08 21:51:56 UTC 
Closing in favour of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/305