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475            document.getElementById('searchModal').showModal();
476            
477            // Parse query parameter from URL
478            const urlParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.hash.split('?')[1]);
479            const query = urlParams.get('query');
480            
481            // Focus on search input
482            const searchInput = document.querySelector('.ais-SearchBox-input');
483            searchInput.focus();
484
485            
486            // then change the url to remove the #/search
487            window.history.replaceState({}, '', window.location.pathname);
488        }
489    }
490
491    // Handle initial page load
492    handleSearchModal();
493
494    // Listen for hash changes
495    window.addEventListener('hashchange', handleSearchModal);
496</script>
496
497
498<script>
499  const ghContent = document.querySelector('.gh-content');
500if (ghContent) {
501  const styles = ghContent.querySelectorAll('style');
502  styles.forEach(style => style.remove());
503}
504</script>
504
505
506</body>
507
508</html>

Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.