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Re: How get windows FIND() to work?

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Robert Baer amok-crossposted to alt.computer, comp.lang.javascript, and 
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> Evertjan. wrote:
>> You can even make a bookmark with:
>> 
>> javascript:(function()%7Bconst selectedText %3D
>> getSelection().toString()% 3Bconst newUrl %3D new
>> URL(location)%3BnewUrl.hash %3D %60%3A~%3Atext%3D%24%
>> 7BencodeURIComponent(selectedText)%7D%60%3Bwindow.open(newUrl)%7D)()

The source code of this can be obtained with decodeURIComponent().
Formatted:

(function () {
  const selectedText = getSelection().toString();
  const newUrl = new URL(location);
  newUrl.hash = `:~:text=${encodeURIComponent(selectedText)}`;
  window.open(newUrl);
})();

BTW, this is an instance where using template strings is unnecessary:

  newUrl.hash = ':~:text=' + encodeURIComponent(selectedText);

suffices and is probably even more efficient.

>> .. witch will make this url-string for you,
      ^^^^^
_which_

>> after highlighting the wanted text by mouse.
> * How could someone be so stupid as to 1) search a document for a
> keyword first, then 2) construct a complex URL to FIND that keyword?

For sharing the highlighted variant of a Web site.  There had been an add-
on/extension to do the same, but IIRC it became incompatible with newer 
versions.

I have been thinking about doing something similar for a while, and now
I have gotten a good idea how to do it :)

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How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-03 19:13 -0700
  Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-04 04:49 +0200
    Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-04 20:06 -0700
      Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-05 07:55 +0200
  Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-04 15:22 +1000
    Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-04 10:06 -0700
      Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-04 19:42 +0200
    Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-04 20:13 -0700
      Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-05 19:56 +1000
        Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-05 13:54 +0200
          Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-05 21:55 +1000
            Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-05 15:40 +0200
              Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:27 -0700
                Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-07 14:09 +0200
            Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:24 -0700
          Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:23 -0700
        Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:16 -0700
  Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-08-04 09:10 +0200
    Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-08-04 23:46 +0200
      Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-04 20:21 -0700
        Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-05 07:56 +0200
          Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 11:40 -0700
            Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-07 14:26 +0200
      Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-08-05 08:59 +0200
        Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-08-06 01:11 +0200
      Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-06 11:36 +1000
        Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-08-06 12:24 +0200
          Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:40 -0700
            Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-08-07 10:27 +0200
            Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-08-08 04:39 +0200
          Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-07 18:46 +1000
  Highlighting text (was: How get windows FIND() to work?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-08-05 08:32 +0200

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