GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 582803
Gedit should support clearing search highlighting automatically
Last modified: 2016-03-01 13:11:33 UTC
A feature of Gedit that has annoyed me slightly has been the search highlighting that stays on after the search and even matches new content. When I close the search dialog, I'm done with searching and don't need the highlighting anymore. Would it be for me, I'd turn on autoclearing as default, but just having the possibility to do so would be great. (Also from the usability point of view, my first tries of getting rid of it were doing new search with an empty string. This turned the search button disabled so I didn't succeed with my attempt this way. It took some time before I noticed the "clear highlight" behind search menu.)
Created attachment 134728 [details] [review] My attempt to implement this feature. Patch against 2.26.1. Adds a new gconf key for turning on auto clearing and use for the value in incremental search and normal search dialog.
I don't like this proposal, the highlighted search is there on purpose as you can just have a look where the search was. This is totally intentional and because of this we provide a way to clear the highlighted text. You can use the menuitem or control+shift+k. I'm closing this as WONTFIX. Thanks anyway for reporting this bug.
(In reply to Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (nacho) from comment #2) > I don't like this proposal, the highlighted search is there on purpose as > you can just have a look where the search was. This is totally intentional > and because of this we provide a way to clear the highlighted text. You can > use the menuitem or control+shift+k. I'm closing this as WONTFIX. Thanks > anyway for reporting this bug. Dear Ignacia, I disagree with you, since it would be fine to edit whatever we like while the search bar is still showing. The quicker things are the better.
After a second thought, it is worth it.