[Vimperator] request statusbar / q regex / possible bug: 'all extensions incompatible'

[Nigel McNie]

On 23/06/07, Peter Jakobi <PJakobi at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 1) status / feature request: regex searches
>
> at first I thought it's a late april fool's joke. Then
> I started to be interested. Then I found THAT REGEX searches
> of page content are NOT POSSIBLE. The single most important
> feature of ex/ed/vi for 3 decades. And it's not available
> for the text to be processed. Looking at the mailinglist's
> birth in April, my fears were confirmed: vi without regex
> was indeed a joke.
>
> Anyway: is there a chance to implement REGEX searches?
> vimperator does include regex, javascript does implement
> them AFAIR, Nigel posted something on replacing the quickfind?
> Scriptability in the next vimperator, javascript execution
> and XUL/extension-javascript scraps being able to see/modify
> page contents(?) - it looks like it should be possible.



My replacement was a simple search only, it uses the Firefox inbuilt Finder
component to do all the dirty work (and was stolen from conkeror for the
most part...). I don't think that regex search will be possible unless a
component can be found for it.

-- 
Regards,
Nigel McNie
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