Feature Request: search for symbol under cursor
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Sometimes I'm just navigating to relevant parts of an article/site and have to use either ctrl+f or / to search for a term that I have previously saved to clipboard or have to type into the search field.
Then when I want to search for other terms that I find in the article I have to go through the process of copy/pasting first.
But if I could simply double click on a word then press a single button to search for other occurrences of that word then navigation can be a whole lot simpler.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the described workflow in Vimium: double-click a word on an article, then use a single button to search for other occurrences. Review the existing search and navigation behavior before deciding where this interaction belongs. Done means a word under the cursor can be searched without manually copying it or typing it into the search field.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100