highlighting proximity searches

[William F]

when making proximity searches, we get no highlight. As a suggestion, maybe Foxtrot could highlight everything between the searched words?

[FoxTrot Engineering]

William F wrote:

>when making proximity searches, we get no highlight. As a suggestion, maybe
>Foxtrot could highlight everything between the searched words?

Only words found in the given proximity should be highlighted, and not isolated words.

For example if I search for [includes neighboring words] [very near] [get highlight], in your phrase I quoted above, the first occurrence of [highlight] is very near of [get] so both words should be highlighted, but not the second occurrence of [highlight], which is too far from [get].

Do you get a different result?


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[William F]

i get no highlighting at all.. for example, if the sentence in the PDF is "through a glorious perfect storm" and I search for this. "{3} glorious storm", i do get the search result, but when i click on it to show in the foxtrot window,  it has no highlight.

[FoxTrot Engineering]

William F wrote:

>i get no highlighting at all..

kridrD wrote:

>The latest version of FoxtrotPro does not highlight search terms anymore.

kridrD wrote:

>correction to previous message - highlighting does not work when searching
>for exact string

Yes, there is an issue in version 5.7.1. Highlighting, and maybe also searching, does not work reliably: sometimes it works, sometimes not. In fact this is a random bug that has existed for years, but it seems that the newest versions of Xcode make it happen much more often (it has never been reported, or seen by us, before).

You can download a preliminary build of FoxTrot 5.7.2 from:

http://foxtrotdev.free.fr/1444

Please let us know if it fixes the issue for you.

Thanks for the report

PS: there is a completely unrelated issue on macOS 10.12 Sierra, that makes highlighting occurrences in PDF files bogus. It was totally broken until 10.12.2, and is only partially fixed in 10.12.3: with this version, all occurrences of searched words found on a given PDF page are highlighted using the same color, even when searching multiple words.

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[William F]

still no highlighting with 5.7.2. and Sierra 10.12.3... single search highlighting works, but proximity searches are not highlighted. Pretty sure I've had this issue with yosemite, el capitan, and previous versions of Foxtrot Pro.

[FoxTrot Engineering]

William F wrote:

>still no highlighting with 5.7.2. and Sierra 10.12.3... single search
>highlighting works, but proximity searches are not highlighted. Pretty sure
>I've had this issue with yosemite, el capitan, and previous versions of
>Foxtrot Pro.

Here is what I get when I search for:
"{3} glorious storm" "{3} highlight words"

Could you send me privately a sample document, associated with a neighboring words search string that finds the document, but does not highlight the occurrences?

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[William F]

sent it, did you receive?

[pamela federman]

Could you guys please communicate directly and leave the rest of us out of the conversation?

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[kridrD]

Hi Jérôme,

FoxTrot 5.7.2 works well for highlighting "eact string" search terms. It also fixes the annoying problem of obsolete references to files that have been moved. I am currently rearranging my pdf library which involves the shifting of many files. FoxTrot 5.7.1 would not remove old file locations, regardless of the method used to update indices. FoxTrot 5.7.2 seems to have overcome this problem.

Overall, I am very happy with FoxtroPro as it allows me to find needles in my document haystacks. Please, keep up the good work.

Cheers

Dirk