# Intra-notebook Search

**URL:** https://talk.observablehq.com/t/intra-notebook-search/3156
**Category:** Feedback
**Created:** [April 25, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/intra-notebook-search/3156 "2020-04-25T23:45:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![jflatow](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/jflatow/32/3401_2.png) [@jflatow](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/jflatow)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/intra-notebook-search/3156/1 "2020-04-25T23:45:12Z")

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In emacs I use search all the time to find a point in the file which I want to edit. It would be great to have a code search within the notebook cells that could jump to / move the cursor between matches!

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### Author: ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/intra-notebook-search/3156/2 "2020-04-26T15:54:19Z")

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For cells that are open, you can use your browser’s native find-in-page feature. You can also go to safe mode by adding `/safe` to the URL to see all of the cells open at once.

That said, we would like to make find-in-page work better, add support for find-and-replace, and make a variety of other editing improvements. Thanks for the feedback!

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### Author: ![jflatow](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/jflatow/32/3401_2.png) [@jflatow](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/jflatow)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/intra-notebook-search/3156/3 "2020-04-26T17:45:12Z")

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Awesome, and thanks for the safe-mode tip! I am sure whatever y’all come up with will be amazing.

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### Author: ![jflatow](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/jflatow/32/3401_2.png) [@jflatow](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/jflatow)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/intra-notebook-search/3156/4 "2020-07-18T22:37:01Z")

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Just thought I’d add another thought related to searching that I keep wishing for: when you are hovered over the sidebar, typing keys searches the cell names (in the sidebar). Sometimes getting around the notebook can take a while.

Personally, I sometimes accidentally introduce typos in large notebooks when scrolled randomly in the page with the cursor still in a cell. I feel like this might also help protect against that.

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### Author: ![cpietsch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/cpietsch/32/1440_2.png) [@cpietsch](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/cpietsch)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/intra-notebook-search/3156/5 "2020-07-19T15:33:30Z")

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just wanted to ask the exact same question.

 ![Screenshot_2020-07-19 Explorawolke similarity reveal transition](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/observablehq/original/2X/7/794f8139a489efe28a5dd674e0af400cb6c32022.png)

The search bar on top could be reused (just like github is doing it) to allow for local search vs global.