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Ask HN: Is there a “jump back” feature in browsers after doing Ctrl-F?
When I’m browsing a long page, if I do a Ctrl-F, it will jump me to some random part in the page, and I don’t know how to get back to where I was
I would like a back button within a page, to go back to my previous location before the “jump”
As I think about it, vim has a notion of this, it’s called the jump list, and you can traverse it [1]
Does such a thing exist? I have the same issue in Mac Preview PDF viewer as well
I’m mostly using Chrome btw
[1] https://medium.com/@kadek/understanding-vims-jump-list-7e1bfc72cdf0
- retrocryptid 4y agoOh wait, you don't mean Shift-Ctrl-G, you mean "return the state of my browser window to the state before I initially hit Ctrl-F." Emacs also does this. If you hit ctrl-s (even repeating the search a couple times), a ctrl-g will take you back to where you were before you did the search. Let us know if you add this as a suggested improvement for firefox or chrome, I'd be happy to upvote it.
- meken 4y ago> return the state of my browser window to the state before I initially hit Ctrl-F That sounds exactly like what I want! However, on Mac chrome, Shift-Cmd-G is mapped to "Find previous"
- compressedgas 4y agoA workaround would be to duplicate the tab before you search.
- meken 4y agoYes, I find myself doing this sometimes
- MilnerRoute 4y agoGood question. (Maybe someone needs to make an extension for this?) Sometimes when I have to search for a phrase, but I want to then return to where I left off, I'll try to find something unique about the part of the document that I'm currently reading first. (Something that's unique enough that I can find it with a second search.)
- meken 4y agoThat’s a clever workaround
- pkrumins 4y agoShift+F3