Screenshot of performing "Find as you type" in Mozilla Firefox. "ency" was being typed and the first matched text was highlighted in green.

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As the user types, the matched text is found (and usually highlighted). It can also find next/previous matched text. This is more robust than traditional find as finding is done immediately when typing starts. Also, it is better in terms of usability as no modal window is used. In the case of modal find, the user may need to move the modal window around, as it can block the part of the screen which contains the matched text. Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. ...

Examples

Non-modal incremental find is not only found in some modern web browsers like Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Konqueror, but also in Apple Computer's iTunes & Spotlight (which searches the entire computer), Microsoft's Windows Media Player, and many text applications like Emacs, Archy, Vim, NetBeans IDE, less and Eclipse. In Mozilla jargon, it is coined as Find As You Type (FAYT). An example of a web browser (Mozilla Firefox running under Microsoft Windows). ... The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite, and code named Seamonkey) is a free, cross-platform internet suite, whose components include a web browser, an e-mail and news client, an HTML editor, and an IRC client. ... Firefox redirects here. ... Opera is an Internet suite which handles common internet-related tasks, including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, and online chat. ... Konqueror is a file manager, web browser and file viewer, which was developed as part of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) by volunteers and runs on most Unix-like operating systems. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple Computer on January 10, 2001 at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco,[1] for playing and organizing digital music and video files. ... Spotlight is an as-you-type, system-wide desktop search feature found in Mac OS X v10. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. ... This article is about the text editor. ... Archy is a proposed radically new system for interacting with many kinds of computers. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open-source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... NetBeans refers to both a platform for the development of Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment (IDE) developed using the NetBeans Platform. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Eclipse is an open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls rich-client applications, as opposed to thin client browser-based applications. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

External links

• Keyboard Feature: Find As You Type — Mozilla.
• Incremental Search — Emacs.
• Using Incremental Find — Eclipse.
• Find As You Type Add-on — Internet Explorer