No the find text doesn't update. That is to support the use-case:
1. find something 2. do some editing, which may involve selecting 3. find again, still having the original find text available.
Clearly both use-cases cannot co-exist at the same time unless some option is available to choose, though that may not be very convenient, but "somebody" could try implementing it to see.
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