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Two of the three participants that used the "Find..." command in a recent usability study wanted to find more than the first occurrence of their string in the current document. However, they could not figure out how to do this. Of course, F3 is bound to a "find next" kind of action in the editor, but participants did not think to try F3. Instead, after finding no command in the menu, they used the "Find..." command repeatedly. Recommendation: Add a "Find Next" menu item in the "Edit" menu with the appropriate shortcut.
*** Issue 17637 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
In addition to adding a "Find Next" option to the Edit menu, consider adding a "Find Next" button to the Find dialog box itself (directly under the "Find" button) and allow the dialog box to stay open as the user clicks "Find Next" repeatedly (only closing if "Find" or "Close" is clicked). Adding a "Find All" button that would display all lines containing the desired text (and jump to any of those lines when clicked) would also be nice.
Set target milestone to TBD
Changing subcomponent to "search"
We would like to change the behaviour of F&R dialog. http://editor.netbeans.org/doc/Proposals/Find/Proposal.html *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 17635 ***