[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 113588] New: Web Inspector: Find Commands not global (doesn't use system-wide find)

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113588

           Summary: Web Inspector: Find Commands not global (doesn't use
                    system-wide find)
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Web Inspector
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: brkemper at mac.com
                CC: keishi at webkit.org, pmuellr at yahoo.com,
                    pfeldman at chromium.org, yurys at chromium.org,
                    apavlov at chromium.org, loislo at chromium.org,
                    vsevik at chromium.org,
                    web-inspector-bugs at googlegroups.com


In almost all Cocoa applications on the Mac where you can search for something in the document, the find command is system wide. That is, you can highlight a word, press Command-E to make it the search term, then switch to another Cocoa application and press Command-G to find again. The second application will search for the term from the first application. And it goes both ways (search for a term in the second app, find it in the first app). This generally works great in Safari and Chrome, and I often use it as a developer to highlight something on a page, press command-e and then find it in BBEdit (and vice versa). Or I highlight something in an e-mail and then go find it in a Web page.

However, the developer tools don't work that way. My deeply-ingrained habit of using this very useful standard Mac keyboard shortcut don't work in the developer tools, because they don't access the systemwide Find pasteboard (or whatever its called). I end up having to copy and paste the term into the Find field for "Sources" and "Resources" especially (it is what I search for things in the most), and also for "Elements". Please bring system-wide "Find" to the Inspector and Developer Tools.

PS. I have "Use Webkit Inspector" checked in the "Develop" menu all the time, because I find the UI on the newer version of the inspector tools to be pretty much unusable, and a huge step backwards. I hate the new version.

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