Hey there, I have just made a small fix to enable VC++ style search, where the volatile search (Ctrl-F3 in my keys) puts the search item in the history, thus allowing to continue searching with F3/Shift-F3.

My patch is below. It's not the cleanest, but is hopefully the smallest. An invisible Find window is created in order to allow search re-runs.

Index: Notepad_plus.cpp

--- Notepad_plus.cpp    (revision 73)
+++ Notepad_plus.cpp    (working copy)
@@ -2543,21 +2543,28 @@
         case IDM_SEARCH_VOLATILE_FINDNEXT :
         case IDM_SEARCH_VOLATILE_FINDPREV :
         {
+            // Ensure that the find dialog is created
+            _findReplaceDlg.createDialog(FIND_DLG, _isRTL);
+
+            // Get the focus back
+            ::SetFocus(_pEditView->_hSelf);
+
+            // Expand selection to a whole word if there is nothing selected
             CharacterRange range = _pEditView->getSelection();
             if (range.cpMin == range.cpMax)
             {
                 _pEditView->expandWordSelection();
             }
-            else
-            {
-                char text2Find[MAX_PATH];
-                _pEditView->getSelectedText(text2Find, sizeof(text2Find));

-                FindOption op;
-                op._isWholeWord = false;
-                op._whichDirection = (id == IDM_SEARCH_VOLATILE_FINDNEXT?DIR_DOWN:DIR_UP);
-                _findReplaceDlg.processFindNext(text2Find, &op);
-            }
+            // and now run a search
+            char text2Find[MAX_PATH];
+            _pEditView->getSelectedText(text2Find, sizeof(text2Find));
+
+            FindOption op;
+            op._isWholeWord = false;
+            op._whichDirection = (id == IDM_SEARCH_VOLATILE_FINDNEXT?DIR_DOWN:DIR_UP);
+
+            _findReplaceDlg.processFindNext(text2Find, &op);
             break;
         }
         case IDM_SEARCH_MARKALL :
Index: ScitillaComponent/FindReplaceDlg.cpp
===================================================================
--- ScitillaComponent/FindReplaceDlg.cpp    (revision 73)
+++ ScitillaComponent/FindReplaceDlg.cpp    (working copy)
@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@
     if (enableDlgTheme)
         enableDlgTheme(_hSelf, ETDT_ENABLETAB);

-    goToCenter();
+    if (_dialogIsVisible)
+        goToCenter();
}

void FindReplaceDlg::updateCombos()
@@ -792,6 +793,11 @@

         (*_ppEditView)->scroll(0, nbColumn2Scroll);
     }
+
+    // We have successfully executed a search (volatile or normal) update
+    // search history with this new item
+    setSearchText(txt2find);
+
     return true;
}

Index: ScitillaComponent/FindReplaceDlg.h

--- ScitillaComponent/FindReplaceDlg.h    (revision 73)
+++ ScitillaComponent/FindReplaceDlg.h    (working copy)
@@ -159,7 +159,8 @@
{
friend class FindIncrementDlg;
public :
-    FindReplaceDlg() : StaticDialog(), _pFinder(NULL), _isRTL(false), _isRecursive(true), _maxNbCharAllocated(1024), _fileNameLenMax(1024) {
+    FindReplaceDlg() : StaticDialog(), _pFinder(NULL), _isRTL(false), _isRecursive(true), _maxNbCharAllocated(1024),
+        _fileNameLenMax(1024), _dialogIsVisible(false) {
         _line = new char[_maxNbCharAllocated + 3];
         _uniCharLine = new char[(_maxNbCharAllocated + 3) * 2];
         _uniFileName = new char[(_fileNameLenMax + 3) * 2];
@@ -204,21 +205,28 @@
         ::SendMessage(::GetDlgItem(_hSelf, IDC_DISPLAYPOS_BOTTOM), BM_SETCHECK, BST_CHECKED, 0);
     };

+    void createDialog(DIALOG_TYPE whichType, bool isRTL = false) {
+        if (!isCreated())
+        {
+            create(IDD_FIND_REPLACE_DLG, isRTL);
+            _isRTL = isRTL;
+        }
+
+        if (whichType == FINDINFILES_DLG)
+            enableFindInFilesFunc();
+        else
+            enableReplaceFunc(whichType == REPLACE_DLG);
+    }
+
     void doDialog(DIALOG_TYPE whichType, bool isRTL = false) {
-        if (!isCreated())
-        {
-            create(IDD_FIND_REPLACE_DLG, isRTL);
-            _isRTL = isRTL;
-        }
+        createDialog(whichType, isRTL);

-        if (whichType == FINDINFILES_DLG)
-            enableFindInFilesFunc();
-        else
-            enableReplaceFunc(whichType == REPLACE_DLG);
+        _dialogIsVisible = true;

         ::SetFocus(::GetDlgItem(_hSelf, IDFINDWHAT));
         display();
-    };
+    }
+
     bool processFindNext(const char *txt2find, FindOption *options = NULL);
     bool processReplace();

@@ -301,8 +309,8 @@
     bool _doMarkLine;
     bool _doStyleFoundToken;
     bool _isInSelection;
+    bool _dialogIsVisible;

-
     RECT _findClosePos, _replaceClosePos, _findInFilesClosePos;

     ScintillaEditView **_ppEditView;