Screenshot of performing "Find as you type" in Mozilla Firefox. "ency" was being typed and the first matched text was highlighted in green. Non-modal incremental find, or inline find/progressive find, is a feature that can be found in various applications that involves the searching of text string. In contrast to traditional find, no modal window is used. A keyboard shortcut, usually "/", is assigned to invoke the find function.
As user types, the matched text is found (and usually highlighted). It can also find next/previous matched text. This is more robust than traditional find as finding is done immediately when typing starts. Also, it is better in terms of usability as no modal window is used. In case of modal find, user need to be move the modal window around, as it blocks part of the screen which may covers the matched text.
Non-modal incremental find is not only found in most modern web browsers like Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Konqueror, but also some text applications like Emacs and Eclipse. In Mozilla jargon, it is coined as "Find as you type".
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