Using Ctrl-F you can search the output buffer from the main window.
My suggestions are:
1. A hotkey/shortcut that lets you search for the next occurrence.
2. A hotkey/shortcut that lets you highlight all occurrence with a customisable colour (a bit like a temporary trigger).
In summary it would be nice if the search function worked similarly to what Firefox offers these days.
Maybe even a "search as you type" option?
Search as you type would have to be incompatible with 'all typing goes to output window'.
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1. A hotkey/shortcut that lets you search for the next occurrence.
Doesn't shift-ctrl-F do this already?
Yes, shift+ctrl+F does that, and if you want to find all occurences use "recall".
Display menu -> Recall Text (Ctrl+U).
No, i mean searching as you type the word in the search dialog.
Do the words "application bloat" ring a bell?
It's just two lines of code :p
Don't quite follow that. I would need to, after each character, go into the search routine, highlight words, scroll to make them visible, and so on.
Ah, well, I was just saying that the search as you type feature would work as the normal search feature, except it would click search automatically after each keypress. Not a big deal, really.
That wouldn't quite work, though, because search as you type is from the starting position - if you "clicked search" after every keystroke you'd be changing the start position every time.
Quite right, and for regular expressions you wouldn't know when it was safe to send them to the regexp parser.