From: Paul Mackerras Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 06:59:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] gitk: Better highlighting of search results Message-ID: <20120923065947.GB15889@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1348299625-90207-1-git-send-email-stefan@haller-berlin.de> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 09:40:23AM +0200, Stefan Haller wrote: > Here's something that has been bugging me for a long time: when using > the incremental search feature, it's hard to tell what happens when > clicking the Search button (or type Ctrl-S) repeatedly. It does have > the concept of a "current" search hit, and Ctrl-S advances to the next > one; however, you can't see it because all search hits are highlighted > in the same way (yellow). So when there are multiple hits visible on > the current page, it will at some point scroll down to reveal more > hits, but it's impossible to predict when this will happen. > > To improve this, we highlight the current search in orange and the > other ones in yellow (like Chrome does it when you search on a Web > page). Nice, thanks - applied. Paul.