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Etienne Lemay
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Now possible to do with the desktop app.
Ctrl+F (Cmd on macOS) in draft window and conversation window will search in view.
On the main layout where Ctrl+F focuses the search input, pressing Ctrl+F again will open the “Find in view” input. There’s also a “Find in view” option in the search suggestions and command bar.
Keep in mind that, just like in browsers, this will only search within what’s visible. So you will still have to load older entries by scrolling up in long conversations in order for “Find in view” to find something you’re looking for.
Philippe Lehoux
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Store Wolf
fyi, you can get around this by just using the web client instead of the desktop client and using the browser search. Missive will take over the ctrl+f shortcut, but in chrome and other browsers you can still access the browser find from the menu, and a quicker way to get to that is just to click the address bard and then hit ctrl+f
Etienne Lemay
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll merge with the “Find in page” request.
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Etienne Lemay
I often want to do that as well. CMD + F already being used to global search, I once had the idea of doing a “page search” (like browsers) when pressing CMD + F a second time. In other words: When the search if focused, pressing CMD + F again would do a page search.
While I know that this may not be an intuitive UX, we could show some tips when the user press CMD + F for the first time and also offer a “Search in page” option to the search box suggestions.
Do you think it’d work?
Andrew Rasmussen
I think when I write drafts, it's always in a new window where cmd + f does nothing. That being said, I feel like the UX you describe is pretty confusing and difficult to grasp / discover.
I think what would be better is trying to figure out what is "focused" (what they last interacted with or what the mouse is hovering over) and doing the find in that context.
Geoff Ball
Etienne Lemay: Is this still planned? It's not like we can just open Gmail to search since then the conversations are lost.
Etienne Lemay
Geoff Ball: Hey Geoff, thanks for the reminder. I just spent a couple hours trying to implement it, but it’s turning out to be a little bit more involving than it looked like.
It’s definitely still planned as I often would like that myself as well. It’s very unlikely to be ready for our next release, but I’ll try to move that into our short term roadmap.
Geoff Ball
Etienne Lemay: Okay, thanks for the quick reply.
Svetlana Malakhova
Etienne Lemay: We are looking forward for this feature too. Now if you search something in a global search, it shows only a thread, where it has been mentioned, but not a specific message. And there is no way to search for this word in a thread itself. Even if you open the thread in a new window, when you press cmd + f nothing happens.