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Bug 262729

Summary:	[82cat] Multi-carets for next/all occurrence(s) should search for last search pattern
Product:	editor	Reporter:	brettryan <brettryan>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	markiewb
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description brettryan 2016-07-08 08:53:23 UTC

When using the following key bindings [1] the editor should use the last search pattern if nothing is highlighted. This will enable regex caret insertion support.

- Add caret for the next occurence and enter multi-caret mode
- Add caret for all occurences and enter multi-caret mode


Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201607070002)
Java: 1.8.0_92; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.92-b14
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_92-b14
System: Mac OS X version 10.11.4 running on x86_64; UTF-8; en_AU (nb)
User directory: /Users/bryan/Library/Application Support/NetBeans/dev
Cache directory: /Users/bryan/Library/Caches/NetBeans/dev


[1]: http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB82#Editor_Multicarets