22 replies

1. elle mundy 1 min later

   @zachleat do you know about ⌘E

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 min later

      @exchgr I don’t, no!

      1. elle mundy 4 min later

         @zachleat if you select some text and press that keyboard shortcut, it’ll copy it into the page search input and search for it

         1. Zach Leatherman 5 min later

            @exchgr hmmm, which browser? I tried FF, Chrome, and Safari 😬

            1. elle mundy 8 min later

               @zachleat oops sorry, you have to then hit ⌘F after that, and the input will be prepopulated with what you selected

               1. Zach Leatherman 8 min later

                  @exchgr a ha—that’s the trick! very cool!

               2. elle mundy 10 min later

                  @zachleat although if you already have the page search bar showing in safari, ⌘E populates and searches with the selected text

2. Simon Cox 5 min later

   @zachleat Do you mean if someone were to use ⌘+F then they would get the websites full site search? i can see that being horribly abused by companies wanting to show you all the results on the site rather than just on that page!

   1. Zach Leatherman 7 min later

      @simoncox naw—I mean that typing into a specific opt-in search form control on the page would alias to ⌘+F and bring up the browser on-page native search

      1. Simon Cox 29 min later

         @zachleat Oh yes that would be neat but also slightly superfluous?

         1. Zach Leatherman 30 min later

            @simoncox yeah, maybe! Feels less clunky than saying “Use ⌘+F to search!”

            1. Simon Cox 32 min later

               @zachleat
               :)

            2. Šime Vidas 2 hr later

               @zachleat @simoncox How about a JS method like document.showPageSearch()? That way you could invoke it in different situations like when the user clicks a Search page button.

               1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

                  @simevidas @simoncox well I’d prefer a declarative method but I would accept this 😅

3. Pete Gamache 9 min later

   @zachleat I can’t help but think this would be used 99.9% for evil.

   1. Zach Leatherman 9 min later

      @pete how so?

      1. Pete Gamache 17 min later

         @zachleat The same way that hijacking right-click is usually not what I want.

         1. Zach Leatherman 19 min later

            @pete ahh, that’s not quite what I meant, sorry. I want a form control to “submit” to ⌘+F so I get a bunch of for-free browser functionality.

            https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/111177069747395371

            1. Pete Gamache 19 min later

               @zachleat ahh, sure from that side I can see it being useful!

4. Evan Minto 57 min later

   @zachleat Could also be a JS API, which would only require a simple web component to wire up to an input.

5. Mike Aparicio 1 hr later

   @zachleat like some kind of search-asaurus

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @peruvianidol I like where this is going