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<p>Might not be a huge change, most of the code already exists to search/mark the whole document and to do incremental matches.</p>
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<p>Possibly, but its not going to be trivial.  I actually wasn't being sarcastic about redesigning it, I <em>know</em> how browsers work, (you didn't need to provide an example :) and I often find it useful. But I don't see how it will work with regexen, running a partial regex simply isn't useful, so both approaches will need to exist.</p>
<p>I also find the marking of matches in the scroll bar to be useful (on Chrome, it doesn't seem to happen on your Tiredfox image above).</p>
<p>Also some thought about how it works with replace, or does that stay as it is?</p>
<p>As I said pull requests or maybe design suggestions first are welcome, but whilst I am interested and will likely find it useful, I won't work on it myself.</p>

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