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When using Ctrl+H to replace within the current selection, there is some condition that turns off the "active selection" flag, resulting in a global change. This has been reported in tickets since 2010 in PC, Linux, and Mac. I recently posted a test case in bug 207532 to verify that "find replace within selection" actually does work. Moving to another tab and doing a similar operation it insisted on doing global changes. I will try to find/post a reproducible case given other obligations and time constraints. Possible triggers: - Issue might be reset by closing the current tab and re-opening. - Might be related to floating a tab. - Currently only tested with PHP. Will try to test with Java and other file types. - Might be related to doing a non-regex then changing to regex, or the second regex on some other condition, or selection after entry of find/replace text then clicking Replace All, or maybe related to whether selection starts at column 1 or ends at column 1 or beyond some other column... People have been mentioning this issue for years, as an aside in find-related tickets, or as the topic of bug reports, and it doesn't look like there has been a dedicated effort to nail it - probably because it's inconsistent. I hope this ticket will drive toward focused testing and finally a fix. STEPS: Highlight some text, ctrl+H, enter the search and replace terms as Regex, and then click Replace All to replace only within the current selection. ACTUAL: SOMETIMES - All instances of the search pattern are replaced within the entire file. (Possibly within all open files? Need to verify.) EXPECTED: Only replace within the selected area. Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.2 (Build 201609300101) Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.2 Patch 2 Java: 1.8.0_141; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.141-b15 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_141-b15 System: Windows 8.1 version 6.3 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_US (nb) Refs: Reports in bug 207532 request an enhancement to add find/replace in selection feature but this is invalid. The feature exists. But several people report the issue documented here, which is why I'm creating a separate ticket for a bug. Exact same report on Mac in bug 268525 Slight relation to bug 175550 bug 118612 Bug 124504 closed in bulk cleanup bug 217312