Vscode-restclient: Can not search/find (Ctrl+F) inside Response tab

[internetz]

• VSCode Version: 1.5.3
• OS Version: Ubuntu 16.04 (KDE Neon)
• REST Client Version: 0.8.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Request any Resource. e.g. http://github.com
2. The Response is shown but you can not search/find (Ctrl+F) inside the response tab

[Huachao]

@internetz This is related to VS Code limitations, Microsoft/vscode#8794 and Microsoft/vscode#12215. And I will follow up the issue in vscode, and will try to implement it in VS Code when I have time. Thanks

[shahidmau]

It is required option. You can see "ES Query" plugin, they are providing search option in result window.

[Huachao]

@shahidmau since I am using html to preview the result, while they use text document to display the result. And vscode has limitation in searching result in preview page. And in #72 , I am considering to add a new command to display the response in text document, so that you can search. And currently, you have to save the response, and search what you need

[shahidmau]

ok, so what you can do is to provide an option to show output in either plain format or html format.
You can give toggle/switch button some where in output response (or in settings).
Plain text must support search option. ES Query is also showing plain text but it looks good.
It is required because sometime we have output response of thousands of lines and we can not scroll manually to find our desired text and html format becomes very slow.

[Huachao]

@internetz @shahidmau I have added a new way to display result in an untitled document, and it seems can solve your problem, and I will publish this version ASAP

[Huachao]

@internetz @shahidmau since version 0.13.0, you can preview the response in the editor directly(previously only allow in webview, which vscode has some limitation), you can experience this feature by set the setting rest-client.previewResponseInUntitledDocument to true.

So I'd like to close the issue now, and supporting find in the webview is still depending on vscode. Please feel free to reopen it if you still have any concern.

[Huachao]

@internetz @shahidmau in latest vscode 1.15.0, you can already search in preview page with keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F. With this feature, you can set rest-client.previewResponseInUntitledDocument to false again.

[ggayan]

@Huachao It looks like searching in the preview webview is not working anymore. I am willing to check how can this be patched, but I am not sure where to look. Do you have any pointers?

[Huachao]

@ggayan do you mean you can't get the highlighted results after you provide the searching words , can you please provide a screenshot