That's certainly better, but when searching all documents, that's when you most need the looping behavior.
Imagine you've got 10 files open, and you're looking at
someVar in the 5th file. You want to find all other occurrences of
someVar in the open files. You tick "all documents" and do the search. It finds occurrences of
someVar in files 6 and 8, and you now think you've found them all. But someVar also occurs in file 2, and unless you
also search up, you miss it.
NetBeans has a better "all documents" search, but it's overly elaborate, with results appearing in separate windows. My favorite text editor,
NoteTab Light (that's not Notepad), does it best, finding each occurrence of the target text, looping through all the open documents. The loop has no end - it doesn't keep track of where you started the search. It just keeps searching for the next occurrence.
(At the moment, I'm more interested in the bizarre "folder slides" issue I emailed you about. That one falls into the "weirdly fascinating" category.
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. Try the latest JTexPad.jar now. It now loops over all open tabs if "All Documents" is checked. It doesn't matter where you start the search.
