Mark several occurrences of one word/expression

[AlphaHasi]

It would be nice to have the option to search for a term and then mark all occurrences. Especially for lists this could be helpful.

Workflow might be: select a word and then instead of „mark“ have a second option „mark all“.

(I know it is possible to highlight a sidewide search (strg+f) in the browser by default, but only for one search term at a time and only one default color.)

[ufb]

Hi AlphaHasi,
the next 2 weeks I'm very busy, but next month there will be a major update and I will check if the requested feature is something that can be included.

[ufb]

Just did some research on how this feature could be realised. Unfortunately it's non-trivial:
The easiest way would be to use window.find recursively, since this will select the searched text, which would make it very easy to wrap it with a highlight element - but this method is non-standard and should not be used.
Extensions can also use the browser's find API, but this doesn't select the text (the highlightings on a search are actually not wrapping elements and therefore of no use) - which means Textmarker would have to iterate over all text nodes and this is where it gets complicated...
So, all-in-all, it's definately not a feature that I can add before releasing 4.0.0. I will dig deeper though in order to find a good solution, but can't promise anything for the near future.

[AlphaHasi]

Thanks for the research! I have no idea about the browser's native APIs (as a developer I only worked for content "inside" the browser) and assumed it would be an easy thing to add.

There was a popular add on "SearchWP", that was old type and had not a real replacement after the support was canceled. It is deleted from the servers now (and it is not the one plugin you find for WP on the internet). But I found another add on (now updated to new code) that can provide the functionality. Unfortunately it is not very stable (at least on my system) and does often not work at all, for example on WordPress pages, that have an user frame around the content (this typical grey border with your user name on top of each page after login). That was never an issue for the SearchWP add on. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/highlightall/

If this would be complex to add and the result would be just unstable code, don't do it. Also the lack of others joining the topic might indicate the insignificance of this feature.

[ufb]

I had a look at the source code of the cited addon just now - it is using the browser's find API for temporary hilighting and a nodeIterator otherwise - the developer is acknowledging lots of edge cases, iframes etc.
It's definately makeable, but devil is in the details. If it was just for hilighting without saving your highlights to Textmarker's history then this should be straight-forward. But there are some issues to overcome when saving (i.e. iframes will be problematic).

[AlphaHasi]

ignore it -> close the topic -> 0 issues!

:)
thanks!

[ufb]

:D I'll keep it open for now. There are a lot of things on the todo list but maybe I find the time some day to give it a go;)