Find

This command lets you search for specific text in the current display. Every occurrence of the search text is marked in the panes, and the line of the current match is highlighted. The dialog also shows which match you are on and how many there are in total (for example 3 / 17), counting the lines that contain a match.

Find Next searches forward from the current line, Find Previous backward. If the dialog would cover the found line, it moves out of the way automatically.

Options

Match whole word only

Find the search text only where it stands as a complete word — that is, bounded by a non-word character (anything other than a letter, digit or underscore) or the start/end of the line. For example, searching for id then skips width and hidden.

Match case

Find only occurrences whose upper/lower case matches the search text.

Wrap around

When the search reaches the top or bottom of the file without a match, it continues from the other end so an occurrence anywhere in the file is found. On by default. Turn it off to have the search stop at the end of the file.

Press F3 (Find Next) or Shift+F3 (Find Previous) to repeat the last search with the same options, also after the dialog is closed. The status bar then shows how far the search has come, for example Find "Marker": 3 / 400.

All matches on screen stay highlighted while a search is active. Press Esc to remove the highlighting.

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