philc / philc/vimium

[FEATURE REQUEST] Allow Grepping Through Opened Tabs/Grepping Through Current Window's Tabs

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Description

Problem: there are times where i'll have 50 or so tabs open with stuff that i skimmed. then remember something random in some tab somewhere, and then have to start the painful process of switching to each tab and /to search.

Solution: User should be able to bring up a Search-Through-Tabs omni-bar that queries all open tabs (or all the tabs in current window) and returns a list of tabs matching that query. would be super awesome if this omnibar could also take in regex.

(sorry not a bug, but i think it'ld be cool)

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the existing omnibar and tab-search behavior, then determine how open tabs and the current window are represented. Done should mean a search-through-tabs omnibar returns matching tabs and establishes whether regex queries are supported.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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