Fool4UAnyway - 2008-05-27

I believe it is from Notepad++ version 4.9 that the display position selection was removed from the Find Dialog.

Thread:

"Notepad++ v4.9 Workers' Day's Edition" (Open Discussion forum)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2025294&forum_id=331753

Part of message:

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Notepad++ v4.9 Workers' Day's Edition
By: Don HO (donho) - 2008-05-01 09:28

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10. Bug fixed : Find dialog always scrolls text into view now.
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It would be nice if the found match would always be shown on the same line (or the same vertical position, if it is a multi-line match).

Currently, when I use F3 to scroll through my matches and then use SHIFT+F3 to go back to the previous match, the found match is displayed one line higher than with forward search. It is particularly useful to always display the match on the same line if the code around that match is similar, so I can easily compare the code or check the differences around two matches by using F3 and SHIFT+F3 repeatedly.

I can set bookmarks and use (SHIFT+)F2 to get the convenience I want, because both SHIFT+F2 and F2 _do_ always display the bookmarked line at the same vertical position. It would be very welcome if this would also be the case for F3 and SHIFT+F3.