<p>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.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I assume the OP is wanting Geany to behave more like browsers/other editors, so it's not really irrelevant.</p>
<p>A couple examples:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/181177/58149527-36aede80-7c18-11e9-8bc2-e800e33bca4b.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/181177/58149527-36aede80-7c18-11e9-8bc2-e800e33bca4b.png" alt="atom_search" style="max-width:100%;"></a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/181177/58149535-3dd5ec80-7c18-11e9-9183-26ca8913bba7.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/181177/58149535-3dd5ec80-7c18-11e9-9183-26ca8913bba7.png" alt="firefox_search" style="max-width:100%;"></a></p>

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