IIUC what you want is to perform an incremental search (which would select the next match and mark all other matches as the search text is typed) but then show only lines that contain a match?

I just tried and this is what the feature does - it removes lines not containing the entered text. For a file with a number from one to nine on each file, one gets this after filtering for 'e':

Could probably be implemented in a non-incremental manner too.

The current searching facilities are fairly old fashioned and could do with an update, even if its only for text and not regex searches. IIRC there have been discussions about adding it in the past, but nobody came up with an implementation and associated UI (or not an acceptable one).

I personally prefer normal search to the incremental one but I understand why it may be preferred by others. If it gets implemented, we could keep both versions like SciTE does: "Find" and "Incremental Search".

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