Text search commands

&dactyl.appName; provides a Vim-like incremental search interface to replace &dactyl.host;'s crippled Typeahead Find. Among other improvements, our search service:

Starts at the cursor position in the currently selected frame, unlike &dactyl.host;, which always starts at the beginning of the first frame for documents with more than one frame.
Returns the cursor and viewport to their original position on cancel.
Backtracks to the first successful match after pressing backspace, unlike &dactyl.host;, which will always continue from the last match.
Supports reverse incremental search.
Escape sequences to toggle link-only and case-sensitive searching.

Regular expression search, however, is not currently available unless the /Find Bar/ service is installed, in which case it may be toggled on with a search flag.

/ /pattern/

Search forward for the first occurrence of pattern.

The following escape sequences can be used to modify the behavior of the search. When flags conflict, the last to appear is the one that takes effect.

\c: Perform case insensitive search (default if ignorecase is set).
\C: Perform case sensitive search
\l: Search only in links, as defined by hinttags. (default if linksearch is set).
\L: Search the entire page.

Additionally, if the /Find Bar/ extension is installed, the following flags may be used,

\r: Process the entire pattern as a regular expression.
\R: Process the entire pattern as an ordinary string.

? ?pattern?

Search backward for pattern, in exactly the same manner as /.

n n

Find next. Repeat the last search.

N N

Find previous. Repeat the last search in the opposite direction.

* *

Search forward for the next occurrence of the word under cursor.

# #

Search backward for the previous occurrence of the word under cursor.

:noh :nohlsearch :nohlsearch

Remove the search highlighting. The document is highlighted again when another search command is used or the hlsearch option is set.