From 0450bec1a279e8d67ea46950397f1de91b1b118c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mrmr1993
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 01:46:22 +0100
Subject: Add a comment explaining match counting for string searches

---
 content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'content_scripts')

diff --git a/content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee b/content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee
index 5ba6fa45..c7cff961 100644
--- a/content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee
+++ b/content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee
@@ -555,8 +555,11 @@ updateFindModeQuery = ->
     findModeQuery.regexMatches = text.match(pattern)
     findModeQuery.activeRegexIndex = 0
     findModeQuery.matchCount = findModeQuery.regexMatches?.length
+  # if we are doing a basic plain string match, we still want to grep for matches of the string, so we can
+  # show a the number of results. We can grep on document.body.innerText, as it should be indistinguishable
+  # from the internal representation used by window.find.
   else
-    # escape all special characters, so RegExp just parses the string
+    # escape all special characters, so RegExp just parses the string 'as is'.
     parsedNonRegexQuery = findModeQuery.parsedQuery.replace("\\", "\\\\")
                                                    .replace("^", "\\^")
                                                    .replace("$", "\\$")
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