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Hi all. First I'll admit that I came to NB from xemacs. I find though that I use the search feature of NB *much* less than I used it in xemacs. There are a few reasons for this: 1. A minor one. While I like the color highlighting of all the matched that are found. It is annoying that they stay around even after I'm done searching. 2. The search window, while probably needed more for search and replace, is big and many times covers up the source you're trying to read through. I'd like at least the option for something quick and easy like the search in the bottom line of the xemacs window that you get with CTRL-S and CTRL-R, and the ability (after you've typed what you're looking to match) to continue to hit CTRL-S and CTRL-R to step through the matches, and even reverse direction. The Editor has it's own status bar (which is probably currently Read Only right?) which ideally could be used for this. -Kyle
ad 1. You can use Alt+Shift+H to turn it off (toggle). ad 2. Yes we are aware of that. In general we would like to support an editor mode similar to emacs where this would be the default but still it should be available in the nb-native mode too. Now it's necessary to move the find dialog e.g. to the left (over the explorer) so that it does not cover the editor visible area.
Addition to the previous note: The find dialog should remember its position even when it's closed and then reopened.
I think i have noticed that the window will remember it's location. I suppose in the absence of being able to get a smaller search entry area like xemacs, it would be useful to be able to 'dock' the current search window into the others, so that it doesn't cover anything on the screen and could maybe be left there all the time. I didn't know about Alt+Shift+H for clearing the highlight. I'd also like to suggest that that be a button on the search window, and possibly also a button on the editor toolbar.
There is "Higlight Search" checkbox in the Find dialog. According to the current editor toolbar proposal it is planned: http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/editor_toolbar/et_uispec.html
Set target milestone to TBD
Changing subcomponent to "search"
*** Issue 22162 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
We've got the search bar now. For find & replace there is still the old dialog though. Hopefully we will merge it into the search bar one day. I think we can close this as fixed. If you find some problems with the new search bar please open a new ticket. Thanks