Find in Chat — Ctrl+F search inside the current conversation (dsh-client-find-in-chat)

[a137460387]

Ctrl+F now works inside your conversation. Jump straight back to that error code, file path, or half-remembered parameter buried 40 messages up — no more scrolling and squinting.

Why: The app has no in-conversation find (the sidebar search is cross-session retrieval, a different tool), and I found no community plugin covering it — so this fills the gap. Browser-native Ctrl+F sort of works, but it searches the whole page DOM: sidebar session titles, your draft, settings text — all noise, and zero session awareness.

What it does:

• Ctrl/Cmd+F opens a floating find bar (top-center, browser convention) scoped to the current conversation's chat view
• Instant as-you-type matching, case-insensitive literal substring; Enter / Shift+Enter cycles with wrap-around; live n/m counter
• Current match scrolls to viewport center; all matches get a dim highlight, the active one a bright one — via the CSS Custom Highlight API, zero DOM mutation, the React tree stays untouched
• Session-aware: switching sessions or leaving the chat view closes it; open modals keep native behavior; the composer is never blocked
• Honest about coverage: searches the loaded message window and says so ("searched N messages · earlier not loaded") — same ceiling as native Ctrl+F, which can only see the DOM anyway

Known limits (MVP): loaded messages only (no auto-load-older — deliberate, to avoid unbounded DOM growth in a non-virtualized list); literal case-insensitive matching, no regex; matches within a single text node; chat view only — trajectory view and modals keep the native shortcut.

Where: part of my fork-maintained plugin set → https://github.com/a137460387/deepseek-harness/tree/master/packages/extensions/find-in-chat. Feedback welcome — especially on the coverage trade-off and anything you'd want from regex or case-sensitive modes.