please add highlight all matches option to Find dialog box

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jschwartz13@att.net
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please add highlight all matches option to Find dialog box

Post by jschwartz13@att.net »

Please consider to add this so that I can easily see all the found words highlighted in the file while I page up and down.
This feature is found in Microsoft Word.
ak47wong
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Post by ak47wong »

That would be a good feature. Most of the major web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) do this too.

As a rather weak substitute, you can click Mark All in the Find dialog to set a bookmark on each line that contains the search string. You can then use the Next Bookmark and Previous Bookmark commands in the Search menu to move between them.
Nial
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Fins all instances....

Post by Nial »

See my suggestion here, it means you don't need to page up and down to see the results of a 'find all instances'....

https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=13565
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