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Originally Posted by Serpentine

Not too sure that 'Look' is the best term.

I think it was 'Look in' or maybe 'Find in' previously - either of which help.

As for the location the search results, using the status bar instead of modal dialog seems ok. If messages are moved to within the search box then it could be confusing as now the user has both the status box and the find box to look at for information. Hard to say without testing. At the moment its hard to tell due to the extra wide windows I get when searching.

One thing that is also a bit confusing is that the search does not wrap around and sometimes I forget to go to the top of the document before searching. But of course if it did wrap around then you might not catch when you're finished

Originally Posted by user_none

There were options for things like this previously. I don't see a reason to have multiple ways to define case sensitive/insensitive operations.

Originally Posted by Serpentine

There are two issues with this, mostly that the user is unaware of the preset, and that for most cases they will want case insensitivity, making it a potentially bad default.
The second is that while it's understandable that minimal matching is fairly regex specific, a lot of the time someone will want to just do a quick search - does the user understand what meta-characters are? how about control statements? (?i)oh\.\.\. noes
Basic hidden functionality is bad enough; but dramatically increasing its :effort: to use is worse.

Exactly. Most people would expect it to be case-insensitive by default, and they would certainly expect to have an option to change it. Having to use regex just to do quick simple searches that ignore case seems a poor trade-off than an extra option/button. Perhaps instead of a checkbox for case-sensitive you could modify the dropdown to Normal - Case Sensitive, Normal - Case Insensitive, Regex; although it might not look great. Using a checkbox for case-sensitive can be confusing as its not clear if this would apply in Regex mode or not.

Originally Posted by theducks

Instead of the Down arrow, how about making the S&R button a toggle like text styles?
Can the S&R be un-docked?

I wondered about this as well especially since S&R box is docked and can't be undocked (although I asked about this before I can't think of a reason I'd want it undocked since its finally in a very convenient out of the way place already - even on my laptop screen there's still enough space for text). Making the Find/Search button a toggle like Quick Settings or book/code view makes some sense - clicking it now it seems like it doesn't do anything half the time But I would still want the X on the window to close it to be consistent. There is also a case for putting a menu entry in View to control showing/not showing it as well - although I wouldn't remove the search icon.