Do away with "direction" option in Find dialog...

[joconnell]

... and add a Find Previous button. Much more usable.

The current Find dialog doesn't really make sense - you have a Find Next button but depending on the Direction radio button selection, it will find the next match or find the previous match.

[ben_josephs]

I leave Down selected permanently. Then <Enter> (or <Alt+F>) searches forwards, <Shift+Enter> (or <Shift+Alt+F>) searches backwards. I find this very convenient. (As you say, if Up is selected, the directions are reversed, but that never happens for me.)

With your suggestion, <Enter> and <Shift+Enter> couldn't work as they do now (without a very unintuitive user interface), as navigating to a button (normally) causes <Enter> subsequently also to select it.

[AmigoJack]

I second this: it works fine as of now, and I also stick to using the keyboard on the editor. No button needed.

However, as there is enough space left, I wouldn't mind a "previous" button either, which just does the opposite of "next". Shouldn't be difficult to implement either, and let's face it: users are sometimes not the smartest.

[ben_josephs]

The problem with a Previous button is, as I suggested, that in order to preserve conventional dialog box button functionality, its presence would break the current keyboard functionality, as navigating to the new button would reverse the effects of <Enter> and <Shift+Enter>. This is what the OP wants to avoid.