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Search Google (alternately using highlighted text)

14 years ago • updated by 13 years ago • 1

I am constantly looking-up functions or doing research while coding.

Suggest (in the style of the new feature for in-app previewing of HTML files) to support the following:

- When text is highlighted, button on the contextual popups to search for text at Google (yahoo, bing, etc....I'm happy with google alone); should be sensitive to the amount of text selected -- more than a half dozen tokens doesn't make sense for a search engine lookup.

Editor window would flip from code view to UIWebView and performs the search.

- Alternately, with no code highlighted, ability to pull up Google search page and enter a manual search.

- State should be maintained in the WebView so that I have access to the browser pane's history (go back at least), and when switching to the webview, it's exactly where I left it when last viewed.

- If file being viewed is PHP code, offer "lookup in PHP documentation". Similar support for other languages as appropriate.

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14 years ago

13 years ago

With the remote preview feature you could just enter any url in the url bar. From there you could use google.
I personally would not want e same button do something else, just because you highlighted some text.

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