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Clearing Searched Text Highlight not-intuitive #2605

@Paxtez

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@Paxtez

If text is highlighted because of "Find" there doesn't appear to be anyway to clear the highlighting besides doing a search for text that doesn't exist.

Steps

  1. Open comparison window
  2. CTRL + F to open Find dialog and enter text that appears
  3. Notice that that text is now highlighted (across all tabs)
  4. Try to clear the highlighting

What DOESN'T clear highlights:

  • CTRL + F/H, escape key
  • CTRL + F/H, Cancel Button
  • Pressing escape (if not set to close tabs)
  • CTRL + F/H, Find Next with a blank input (Find buttons grayed out)
  • Closing the tab and reopening it

As far as I can tell the only way to clear it is to:

  1. CTRL + F/H
  2. Enter gibberish text
  3. Enter (to search)
  4. Enter (to clear "Cannot find" dialog
  5. Escape/Cancel to close the find box
  • This is doubly confusing for multiple tabs, if you open two tabs that contains text:
  • If you search for text that exists in both Tabs, it will change the highlighting of all the tabs to that text
  • If you search for text that only exists in TabA from TabA, you get highlighted text in TabA and nothing in TabB
  • However if from TabA for text that only exists in TabB you get the "can't be found" dialog (which makes sense), but the text isn't highlighted in TabB
    Really it seems like Find/highlight should be independent for each tab. Maybe a "find across all tabs" checkbox that would search/highlight all of them?

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