Advanced Ctrl+F: Highlight in different colors list of words/sentences

metafaniel

TL;DR
Find in Page (Ctrl+F) enhancement to be able to search multiple words/sentences at once and highlight them with different colors similar to Twinword Finder extension.

Explanation
The problem Ctrl+F has always had is it is restricted to search one word/exact sentence at a time. If there is the need to search multiple items at once the only way to do it at present is to follow the workflow for every word we need to find, multiplicating the task with repetitiveness and not getting the whole picture of the list of words needed to be found at a glance.

There are other extensions that try to get this done but they fail in one thing or another. Twinword Finder extension is the most similar one to do the job. This extension also looks for synonyms, highlights related paragraphs to all the words searched, it has a blacklist, etc. (features not so great for me, I just care about the highlight of multiple words)

I'd add new features to this base as Twinword Finder lacks the following: For example in the screenshot, there is no clear distinction in how many words matched were found for every word in the list. It only shows the global account (1 of 262). It would be better to enhance the interface in such a way that we get at a glance the counts for every word in the list and the ability to be able to navigate the results for every word list (Example: Vivaldi 19 of 132; HTML5 3 of 3; tab 58 of 69, etc.)
Also, a way to distinguish if we're looking for complete words or not (i.e. It's not the same to search the word "list" to the word "lists" . If I just care about the "list" findings, it shouldn't highligh the plural word in this simple example).

That would rocket Vivaldi Find in Page to another level.
Please consider this feature request to be taken into consideration.

Greetings!

Pesala

@metafaniel This looks to be the same as RegEx Support for Find in Page

Please vote for that.

LonM

@metafaniel Hi, Thanks for your feature request.

This looks like a duplicate of https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/24116/regex-support-for-find-in-page Please vote for that instead, thank you.

If you want to make a feature request, please use the search first to see if you can find similar requests.

metafaniel

@LonM @Pesala Sorry but I don't agree with your criteria:

OBJECTION!

I barely mention REGEX just to take it into consideration for a full solution. The other feature request you mention is about using REGEX in the Find in Page ONLY but my feature request is mainly about highlighting multiple words with different colors using Ctrl+F.

I've just removed the REGEX word from my original post. Now my feature request has nothing to do with REGEX, thus is not duplicated (I did my research first and I didn´t find anything related to highlight multiple words).

Can you please reconsider unarchive this feature request?

THANKS!

Pesala

@metafaniel A RegEx search of "Feature OR First" would find both words. Using different colours for the results is how it works in other programs like PDF-XChange Editor, which has options for proximity searches.

You could add a comment to that effect to the original feature request, which already has 74 votes and is tagged as Nice to Have.

metafaniel

@Pesala Mmm... I'm still not very convinced as I'm requesting something different without the need of REGEX implementation but, oh well... I'll comment about the coloring in the other thread if that's your suggestion.

Anyway please reconsider.

Thanks again and greetings!

Pesala

@metafaniel I think that's the best option. With so many feature requests, I suspect that those with a lot of votes will get looked at by the developers more than other, very similar requests, with few or no up-votes.

metafaniel

@Pesala Indeed. I hope that comment I did gets votes there instead to also be considered. Thanks again for your hard work.

Pesala

@metafaniel Don't forget to up-vote the first post in that feature request thread.

LonM

@metafaniel Good points. I de-duped the post.

metafaniel

@LonM Thanks for reconsidering this. Hopefully, this will get some votes now. Greetings.

Komposten

Like the regex thing, this should be optional behaviour: if I want to search specifically for "the cat", I don't want every "the" on the page to light up (nor every "cat").

It's an interesting feature, though.

TsunamiZ

upvoted. i made a similar request before. please also vote for that...

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/30247/find-and-highlight-multiple-words-in-multiple-colors