Open Search Result In Same Bible

ASUNDER · 2025-03-04T22:58:50+00:00

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When using the search tab on a Bible, could we somehow decide if clicking on passages opens in a new Bible or the same one. Currently it can only open in a new tab.

When I choose 'send hyperlinks here' on that tab and click a passage it will still open the passage in a new Bible.

How does it know when we've found what we are looking for so now we just want to jump to that passage? It can't know. But we can decide for ourselves. This is one of the reasons a 'middle mouse button to open anything in new tab' (otherwise open in same tab) is very helpful.

Could we also get an option in the program settings to tell it if we want new tabs to open beside the focused tab or for the new one to cross over to a new group, by default. Please. 🙏😑

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MJ. Smith

You are using an inline search which by definition opens the results inside the current Bible so the hyperlink option does not come into play by definition. To navigate to another place in the same Bible you must close the search results. The same instance of the same Bible cannot be displaying the search results and the passage in context at the same time.

ASUNDER

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1361057#Comment_1361057

Ok. I wish it were different.

That we could have in the options a 'Send To' builder, where we can customize what that feature does.
It would include all possibilities when something jumps to another tab, opens a tab etc.
We could even have two separate Send To's, that we set up each. One we could make for a certain type of hyperlinks only, the other we could include basically all things; to not open a new tab anytime. So it would be an orange bullseye icon and a red one, or something.

MJ. Smith

We have the option - a panel search or an inline search. In designing the interface Logos has to minimize potential for confusion as well as complexity for testing/maintenance. Remember that a significant portion of the users are not computer literate and/or are using an interface not in their native langauge.

ASUNDER

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1361065#Comment_1361065

What combination of words would convince you that 'Send Links Here' should do its job?

FaithLife does not have to minimize potential for confusion.
The reason that most people alive are adults is because childhood is less years than adulthood.
When someone first encounters Logos they are noobs for only a short time, then have learned it for the rest of their life.

So the majority of experienced users shouldn't be hindered for the sake of the few who need a Fischer Price children's Bible app. (The same reason Macs are horrible. They take away abilities, telling the user what is good for them, instead of the user having their own faculty).

Take Winamp for example. It's just a basic mp3 player by default. But it has like thirty pages of customizing options, for those who want it. This is excellence in computing. Showing partiality to noobs is not. We don't lower ourselves to their level, we bring them up to ours.

Dave Hooton

@ASUNDER What combination of words would convince you that 'Send Links Here' should do its job?

The Target icon for Send HyperLinks Here is meant for the destination bible, not the source bible as in your screenshot i.e. open another panel for the destination bible. But your idea would have to replace the current behaviour when the reference comes from Inline search.

ASUNDER

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1361089#Comment_1361089

Ok, this is why a global "middle mouse button = open in new tab" is desperately needed in this program.
The thing that exists in basically all other programs since like 1996.

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