Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Seaching in the data pane would be useful ...
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:16:31 -0700
On Aug 9, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I can across a capture yesterday where there were DNS queries for a
> KDC in a Windows AD environment. The query returned 230 KDCs!
> 
> Searching for a particular one was hard.
> 
> It would be nice to have a right click menu item in either the details
> pane or the data pane where you can search for a particular string (or
> chars or hex equivalent) and have the string highlighted in the data
> pane and the detail pane sync'd to that.

Perhaps if the data pane is the currently selected pane (as in "clicked on"), {Control,Command}+F should search for data within the data pane rather than searching for frames.

And, yes, if the detail pane is the currently selected pane, perhaps {Control,Command}+F should search for items in the detail pane rather than searching for frames.