Add more options for find
I've noticed that find almost always behaves in a way that is non-intuitive. It usually gets me lost in the terminal, for a few reasons:
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It immediately starts searching as soon as I type a letter. If I'm typing the word "open", it'll first show all occurrences of "o", then "op", then "ope", then "open". It'd be nice to have the option of waiting until I hit "enter" before changing my search.
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It almost always jumps to the bottom of the screen. This seems to be partially because of the previously mentioned functionality: since a single letter pretty much always appears somewhere near the bottom of the terminal, it'll jump there first. If I'm scrolled halfway up my terminal and want to find the next occurrence of something, it's pretty much impossible. It'd be nice to have an option for having search start from the current screen position. Or, there could be an option to not actually move the screen at all; in that case, it would simply highlight the words and it would be up to the user to scroll from the current location to find where they are.
I think those two options should fix 99% of my problems actually.
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#1 (closed) is already addressed in the beta (it waits a second before it starts searching if the query is short). #2 (closed) is a legit bug. The search should start from the later of where the last result was found or where you last clicked.
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Fixed in commit b70a5e9e