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.
> 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. I assume the OP is wanting Geany to behave more like browsers/other editors, so it's not really irrelevant. A couple examples:   -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2159#issuecomment-494658412
