Text editor search window

Q2 V9.1 Build 222

The 2 things that I really like about Altera's text editor (and the reason I don't use an external editor) is that I can open up 2 windows at once for the same file (without having to get a nag screen which says "file has been updated by another program blah blah" every time I save it) and that I can split the screen in 2. This gives me the ability to view 4 (or more) different sections of the file at once which makes me about 10 times as productive as I am when I have to continually scroll up and down to reference different parts of the file.

The thing I really really dislike about Altera's editor (which is NOT the way older versions worked! - prior to V7) is the way it deals with the search pop-up window. To wit:

1) You can't re-enter a different search string without using the mouse (unless you're still in it but that's useless because if you were you haven't used it yet).

2) You can't get rid of the window without using the mouse (unless ... see above); The older versions of Quartus allowed you to use the 'esc' key to remove the search window, regardless of whether it was active or not.

3) If you forget the state of the search window (whether it's open or not) and do a 'ctrl f' to open it you just get ignored and the next word you type shows up in your code instead of in the search window.

If you know of an editor which does all of the above well I'm more than willing to try it out.

-Rob

PS Excuse me if this is a repeat question; fix your search engine and I'll stop posting repeats!