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Cadillacula
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January 24, 2017
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Wonky Find & Highlight

  • January 24, 2017
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Having a great deal of difficulty with the new UI (Which angry mob of actual users demanded this overhaul btw? Strangely I don't recall...)

FIND

So when I put my cursor in the code, and then type something in the new ungainly find and replace menu, it will jump away from where I have my cursor and go find the keyword in some other location of the code. Perhaps the most unintuitive non standard "Find" I have ever experienced. Are there any settings to get it's behavior back in the vicinity of planet Earth?

HIGHLIGHT

If I select a section in the design panel of split view, it highlights the code but insists on slamming the highlighted line all the way against the top or bottom of the code view panel.  So I always have to select in design and then scroll the code to the center to get my bearings. Is there a way to get this back to normal?

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    January 24, 2017

    Find & Replace highlighting works fine for me.   Version 2017.1 on Win10.

    No filters, no exceptions.

    Hightlight code.

    Hit Ctrl+F to bring up the panel.  All instances are immediately highlighted in my current document.

    Use the Find Next or Previous arrows to move between selected code.

    Nancy

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    CadillaculaAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 25, 2017

    I am describing two issues, broken apart in OP for clarity (or I thought).

    As far as the "find" issue specifically, I'll be more precise.

    I find something, great, then I close the find box (since it is about 300X larger than the previous version) to get it out of my face.

    Now, later on I put my cursor (not highlight) in a new section of the code where I'd like to begin searching from, then I pop the find box and it still has my old search term in there. Fine whatever, BUT it immediately auto-finds that old keyword from an hour ago again, completely disregarding where I just put my cursor for a fresh search. Complete lunacy. I need this reverted to how it used to work, or disabled.

    Also I cannot stand how it is auto-filling the find box with something I double click. Is there a way to disable this, it's just not how people work typically. Very untested/distracting.

    These things were not broken, I've used them the same way since MacroMedia... and now suddenly.

    My "highlight" issue is a separate matter that I will detail further if I get no responses. Both topics are just tied together via the clunky UI umbrella.

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