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Re: search from within an help page [message #471466]

Mon, 21 January 2008 10:22

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com

Hi Eric,

Oh yes, I just tried Ctrl+F, and it does work.

Of course, you have to make sure that you put focus in the topic frame
(if you want to find terms in the topic) before you do Ctrl+F.

And it's not intuitively obvious. :-)

Does work though!

--Lee Anne

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> when I use the eclipse help system, I can enter a topic to search for;
>> but when I get to a page in the help, there's no way to perform a
>> search in that specific page... am I missing something, or is it a
>> missing feature?
>>
>
> Ctrl+F ?
>
> Eric

Re: search from within an help page [message #471532 is a reply to message #471466]

Tue, 22 January 2008 02:58

Eclipse User

Lee Anne wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Oh yes, I just tried Ctrl+F, and it does work.
>
> Of course, you have to make sure that you put focus in the topic frame
> (if you want to find terms in the topic) before you do Ctrl+F.
>
> And it's not intuitively obvious. :-)
>

I'm afraid it doesn't work (of course that was the first thing I had
tried)... at least under linux...

Re: search from within an help page [message #471535 is a reply to message #471532]

Tue, 22 January 2008 12:22

Eclipse User

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Lee Anne wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Oh yes, I just tried Ctrl+F, and it does work.
>>
>> Of course, you have to make sure that you put focus in the topic frame
>> (if you want to find terms in the topic) before you do Ctrl+F.
>>
>> And it's not intuitively obvious. :-)
>>
>
> I'm afraid it doesn't work (of course that was the first thing I had
> tried)... at least under linux...

The Help window is using a browser to display, so whatever key shortcut
works in the system browser (Mozilla?) should work in the Help window.

Eric

Re: search from within an help page [message #471536 is a reply to message #471535]

Tue, 22 January 2008 14:17

Eclipse User

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Lee Anne wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> Oh yes, I just tried Ctrl+F, and it does work.
>>>
>>> Of course, you have to make sure that you put focus in the topic
>>> frame (if you want to find terms in the topic) before you do Ctrl+F.
>>>
>>> And it's not intuitively obvious. :-)
>>>
>>
>> I'm afraid it doesn't work (of course that was the first thing I had
>> tried)... at least under linux...
>
> The Help window is using a browser to display, so whatever key shortcut
> works in the system browser (Mozilla?) should work in the Help window.
>
> Eric

in my case it looks like it's using the eclipse browser...

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Re: search from within an help page [message #471538 is a reply to message #471536]

Wed, 23 January 2008 10:04

Eclipse User

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Eric Rizzo wrote:
>> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>>> Lee Anne wrote:
>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>>
>>>> Oh yes, I just tried Ctrl+F, and it does work.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, you have to make sure that you put focus in the topic
>>>> frame (if you want to find terms in the topic) before you do Ctrl+F.
>>>>
>>>> And it's not intuitively obvious. :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm afraid it doesn't work (of course that was the first thing I had
>>> tried)... at least under linux...
>>
>> The Help window is using a browser to display, so whatever key
>> shortcut works in the system browser (Mozilla?) should work in the
>> Help window.
>>
>> Eric
>
> in my case it looks like it's using the eclipse browser...
>

If you search in the Preferences dialog for "browser" you'll find a
couple of settings that might help control that.

Eric

Re: search from within an help page [message #471591 is a reply to message #471538]

Tue, 29 January 2008 05:12

Eclipse User

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Eric Rizzo wrote:
>>> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>>>> Lee Anne wrote:
>>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh yes, I just tried Ctrl+F, and it does work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, you have to make sure that you put focus in the topic
>>>>> frame (if you want to find terms in the topic) before you do Ctrl+F.
>>>>>
>>>>> And it's not intuitively obvious. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid it doesn't work (of course that was the first thing I had
>>>> tried)... at least under linux...
>>>
>>> The Help window is using a browser to display, so whatever key
>>> shortcut works in the system browser (Mozilla?) should work in the
>>> Help window.
>>>
>>> Eric
>>
>> in my case it looks like it's using the eclipse browser...
>>
>
> If you search in the Preferences dialog for "browser" you'll find a
> couple of settings that might help control that.
>
> Eric

OK, I set firefox as the external browser.

Ctrl+F still acts globally on the page, but at least it also searches
the topic frame

--
Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DI, Univ. Torino
ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233)
HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it MUSIC: http://www.purplesucker.com
http://www.myspace.com/supertrouperabba
BLOGS: http://tronprog.blogspot.com http://longlivemusic.blogspot.com
http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite
http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt
http://www.gnu.org/software/gengen http://doublecpp.sourceforge.net

Re: search from within an help page [message #607673 is a reply to message #471466]

Tue, 22 January 2008 02:58

Eclipse User