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It appears, that the search field in editor's search bar is too small to completely show the entire search pattern. So please show the entire pattern in a tooltip when hoovering over the search field.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss