[Github-comments] [geany/geany] "Match m of N" in the status bar when searching (#2159)

[Matthew Brush]

There's no reason this couldn't be added if someone wanted to create a clean pull request and prove that it won't have a negative performance impact, even on huge documents.

> Browsers automatically do a progressive find all, they don't wait for you to type the search pattern then return the first result so their behaviour is irrelevant.

I assume the OP is wanting Geany to behave more like browsers/other editors, so it's not really irrelevant.

A couple examples:

![atom_search](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/181177/58149527-36aede80-7c18-11e9-8bc2-e800e33bca4b.png)

![firefox_search](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/181177/58149535-3dd5ec80-7c18-11e9-9183-26ca8913bba7.png)



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