[KevinH]

Any change to Find, or target files, or direction, will perform the equivalent of a Restart. That is true from Saved Search and F & R.

But the point to this whole redesign is that you should rarely or never need Restart, as you do not need to go past your beginning point anymore just to see if you hit all matches when search is operating properly (as it should be with this build).

Once you get the "No Matches Found" message, that means you have already visited each match one time since you started this search. You already decided which ones to replace and which ones to skip.

People are so used to how the old search worked, they expect new search to need the same things. But searching past the end is not one of them.

If you truly want to rerun a just finished search you can, by hitting Restart in F&R dialog, or just change direction (up to down or visa-versa) and repeat it until you again get the "No Matches Found" but in the opposite direction.

It just takes some getting used to as the only way to know that before was to try to search around back to your starting point. Now just learn to rely on Sigil to keep track.

Once working (again hopefully with this build) this will prevent missed searches while allowing entire Saved Search Groups to be run sequentially by selecting the Group and hitting Find again and again while all you do is decide to skip a match or replace it. It will run through the entire set of Search Group tests stopping only at the end.

But to search past your starting point is just not a needed anymore (with hopefully this build) given Sigil's search keeps track if what matches were visited for any set of find value, target search group and search direction.

I realize it is different from before, but it should be faster (fewer clicks), safer (each match visited once and only once), and allows Saved Searches to skip over replacements and continue the search until the end (which was not even possible before).

It just requires Search to work correctly (which it hopefully will now).