CLI: search doesnt work on multiple files

[r5to]

-search <term> doesnt work when executed for multiple files.

Expected behavior is to search on every opened file.

[kjk]

Not sure how it could work, ui wise.

[r5to]

Ah, i see. I didnt know it doesnt do another search for another tab.
In other apps you can make search per tab.

Maybe this can be a workaround?
#6054 (comment)

[r5to]

Anyway here is bug with not showing content when open Find window after PDF opened with CLI search:

[kjk]

which apps? can you show screenshots / videos of how they work?

I'm open to improving how SumatraPDF handles things but here I don't yet see how search across multiple files/tabs could / should work.

Also, what is the use case?

[r5to]

PDF-XChange Editor can search different argument on different tab.
Internet browsers works also like that.

I just wanted to search term in multiple opened PDFs in one run.

[kjk]

That doesn't tell me how that works. We currently have one find window for current tab.

Do they show results for multiple files in their find window?

Do they keep find window opened and update when switching tabs?

[GitHubRulesOK]

Just a comment that Acrobat uses a special indexing system for multiple files but that is a separate system duplication similar to iFiltering which is only able to find from command line one word phrase per document and that is AFAIK the same with XChange one search PER DOCUMENT not many docs. So for 2 copies of files we see 1/1 per document.

PDFXEdit.exe /A "page=255;zoom=200;pagemode=thumbs;search=lazy dog" "c:\example.pdf"

[GitHubRulesOK]

@kjk rather than open an issue while checking this issues behaviour I see doc does not show the need for -as part of "search" command at start of that line

-scroll <x,y> : Scrolls to the given coordinates for the first indicated file. Combine with -reuse-instance if the document is already open.
search : Start a search for a given term when opening a document e.g. SumatraPDF -search "foo" bar.pdf. Ver 3.4+

Also it should be possible to use acrobat /A "page=1;search=Foo Bar" "filepath" or similar syntax in similar way but that is not shown so may be a means to crash ?

however after a fresh start this did work in filling the find box. But SumatraPDF does not see that as a findable object. so is 0/0

sumatrapdf /A "page=1;search=mr Fox" "confused_fox1.pdf"

[r5to]

It also doesnt work right now when opened in multi instance app with -new-window switch for more files than one.

[kjk]

same question: how is it supposed to work given that we have only find window

what is the use case?

[r5to]

Use case is exactly the same as for -search <term>, but executed for multiple files by once.

Example:

• I have 10 PDF files and want to search for the same phrase in every of them.
• Then i need to open 10 PDF and search in every of it for the same phrase: Open PDF -> Ctrl + F -> write / Ctrl + V -> Enter x 10

Shouldn't it be possible by search from CLI?