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I got used to having the "find in projects" default to looking for the current text selection. It's nicer than having to remember to copy the text first, and if you wanted the old value it's in the history.
Sorry - I should have said that I got used to that behavior in Aptana.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 68387 ***