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Content of templates, syntaxhighlight, etc. blocks not found by VisualEditor's Search
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Thryduulf's steps to reproduce:

  1. Open any page that has text generated by templates (e.g. [[Indo-Bangladesh enclaves]] or [[Bowstring]] at en.wp)
  2. Use your browser's find in page function (usually Ctrl+F on a PC) to find text produced by that template (e.g. "acres" or "citation") and count the number of results (e.g. 10 or 1)
  3. Load the page in VE
  4. Use the find function in VE (Ctrl+F on a PC) to repeat the search and count the results (0 in both examples).

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• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Jun 21 2015, 11:26 PM
• Whatamidoing-WMF raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
• Whatamidoing-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
• Whatamidoing-WMF added projects: VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Templates.
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Esanders subscribed.Jun 22 2015, 12:05 PM

This bug isn't going to move any time soon because there are lots of complications around templates being just generated content from wikitext parameters. There would be no reliable way to do replace, and as rendered template content is uneditable and not part of the model, we can't highlight it in search either.

Thryduulf subscribed.Jun 23 2015, 9:47 AM
Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Lowest priority.Jun 29 2015, 7:03 PM
Jdforrester-WMF added a project: Epic.
Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.
nshahquinn-wmf merged a task: T84920: Text in Templates is not found by VisualEditor's Find / Search.Jul 24 2015, 12:47 AM
nshahquinn-wmf added subscribers: Krenair, Etonkovidova.
nshahquinn-wmf mentioned this in T72243: VisualEditor: Be able to search for an existing image by name.Jul 24 2015, 12:54 AM
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Content of templates not found by VisualEditor's Search to Content of templates, syntaxhighlight, etc. blocks not found by VisualEditor's Search.Sep 1 2015, 7:04 PM
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Jdforrester-WMF merged a task: T111030: VisualEditor should let the user to use the browsers search bar to find text inside code block popup.
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Jdforrester-WMF merged a task: T145500: Please make search work inside templates and references.Sep 13 2016, 7:11 PM
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