Addition of an advanced find box #4850

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opened 2026-01-30 23:58:06 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @srv-code on GitHub (Nov 7, 2019).

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Please add a find box as in cmd.exe:
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A more advanced find box will be helpful just as in Notepad++:
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User should be able to:

  1. Option to search using regular expression.
  2. Option to search in current tab only.
  3. Option to search across all the tabs.
  4. Option to search across tabs of similar type (e.g. across Ubuntu tabs only),
  5. Option to get the count of matches etc.
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claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-30 23:58:07 +00:00
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Reference: starred/terminal#4850