On ven., 2009-11-27 at 16:09 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Package: epdfview
> Version: 0.1.7-2
> Severity: minor
> 
> I wanted to search for an http link in a PDF.  So I typed
> "/http://foo";, where the first slash opens up the find toolbar at the
> bottom of the screen.
> 
> Unfortunately, because the / is bound within that toolbar, I can see
> no way to search for a string containing a /.  I tried ^Q/ and ^V/ and
> \/ to escape the slash, and I tried using a period (in case it was
> doing regex matching).  These didn't work.

Yep, confirmed, I can't do it either.
> 
> I suppose I could type Ctrl+<digits> if I knew the unicode codepoint
> for a slash...  Hmm, apparently I can't type any codepoints that way
> -- maybe that trick only works if I'm inside a desktop environment
> (I'm not; I'm running epdfview straight from xinit).

Yeah, I think it's related because here (under Xfce) I can type the
control codes.

Jordi, as you see above, the '/' character can't be entered in the
search bar because it'll be used as the “open search bar and select the
text” even when the focus is already on the search bar.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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