It could be really useful if we have a combo box or a list box with the types of highlighted text of the current document (e.g. if you are editing a .po file in the list box it will be "comment", "msgid" and "msgstr")

with this we can improve a lot the searches, for example, I'm a translator, so, I have the po that I'm translating and one or two more .po which I use to consult strings

I think it could not be so difficult, because if gedit is aware of the kind of string, and thus it can be highlighted correctly, then it can search only for the strings that are the highlighted

sorry for my english, if you don't understand, please tell me and I will try to epxlain better :)

comments are welcome