Re: Either Find does not work or I don't know how to make it work

Malik,

You are trying to *Find* in the Data Output? I don't think pgAdmin's
*Find* feature
works in *anything* except the Query Editor (at least that's been my
experience). If you are looking at anything else on the screen you can try
the browser's find functionality, but that will only work with what's
displayed. I think that might be where the disconnect is. The
Find/Replace feature in pgAdmin4 (including the magnifying glass menu)
*only* work in the Query Editor, Query Tool. When Dave Page said that it
works fine for him, I don't think he realized that you were trying to use
the *Find* feature in the Data Output section of pgAdmin.

I hope that helps,

rik.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 12:49 PM Malik Rumi <malik(dot)a(dot)rumi(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Well, I am happy to learn it isn't just me....
>
> But I am not getting the scroll and highlight behavior you describe.
> Hitting Ctrl+F and Cntrl+G just opens the Find on Chrome - which for
> whatever reason does not work to find anything in the pgadmin4 tables....
>
>
> *“None of you has faith until he loves for his brother or his neighbor
> what he loves for himself.”*
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:00 AM richard coleman <
> rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Malik,
>>
>> Yes, I can confirm that it's rather counterintuative. Ubuntu 18.10,
>> Chromium here. Cntrl-F in the query window causes the *Search: *bar to
>> appear. Doing *anything* other than clicking in the text box to the
>> right of the *Search:* will cause the search bar to disappear. Entering
>> text into that text box and hitting the enter key will *also* cause that
>> Search bar to disappear and it will scroll to the first instance of the
>> result (if it isn't already on the screen and highlight all matches.
>> Cntrl-G will select each match in order. Selections are indicated by
>> having a grey background. *Replace,* in my opinion, is worse. More
>> disappearing bars. Enter the existing text after the *Replace:* then it
>> *disappears* replaced by a *With:* that you enter what you want it
>> replaced with, which then also disappears. A UI that presented the end
>> user with both Find: & Replace at the same time, and didn't keep
>> disappearing would be most helpful.
>>
>> Just my $0.02.
>>
>> rik.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:45 AM Malik Rumi <malik(dot)a(dot)rumi(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on ubuntu 17, Chrome 72. I am happy it is working for you, but I
>>> repeat, once I hit Enter, I got nothing, nada, zip.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *“None of you has faith until he loves for his brother or his neighbor
>>> what he loves for himself.”*
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:47 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 8:26 PM Malik Rumi <malik(dot)a(dot)rumi(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > I can't make heads or tails out of 'find'. When I click on the
>>>> magnifying glass, I get a little
>>>> > Search:
>>>> > But once I put something in there, nothing happens, and if I hit
>>>> Enter, it all just goes away like I hadn't done anything. I am looking at
>>>> the docs https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/dev/query_tool.html
>>>> >
>>>> > and they don't help me at all.
>>>>
>>>> I just tested here and it's working fine for me. I hit Cmd+F, type
>>>> BEGIN in the box and hit return, and it highlights all the occurrences
>>>> of BEGIN as well as selecting the first one. Cmd+G selects the next
>>>> one.
>>>>
>>>> What are you searching for exactly? Are you using a regexp or plain
>>>> string?
>>>>
>>>> What platform and browser are you using? I'm on macOS 10.14 with
>>>> Chrome 71.0.3578.98.
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>