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Re: highlighting proximity searches [message #512 is a reply to message #510] Fri, 17 March 2017 18:58 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
William F
Messages: 12
Registered: March 2017
Junior Member
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.

On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 6:21:50 AM UTC-6, FoxTrot Engineering wrote:
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> William F wrote:
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>> i get no highlighting at all..
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> kridrD wrote:
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>> The latest version of FoxtrotPro does not highlight search terms anymore.
>
> kridrD wrote:
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>> 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:
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> http://foxtrotdev.free.fr/1444
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> 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.
>
>
> Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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>
> "FoxTrot is enormously superior to Spotlight. (...) Much more efficient
> than Spotlight in narrowing down search results to highlight just the
> ones you want. (...) Absolutely first class product."
> FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com
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>
> Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch
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