https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367710

            Bug ID: 367710
           Summary: Enable highlighting in Scroll-bar Minimap for (just)
                    Find
           Product: kate
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
          Reporter: richard.l...@gmail.com

The highlighting of searched strings in the scroll-bar minimap is very cool
feature, however in its current implementation it has very poor ease of access
and poor use.
Why? Because it is only shown when using the "Search & Replace" (S&R) dialog
but not when using "Find". This is bad for several reasons:
1.  Often (here 99% of the time) one just wants to find text and not replace,
so one wouldn't open S&R in the first place.
2. Kwrite doesn't has S&R (or it has also very poor ease of access), hence this
feature isn't there available at all.
3. S&R is way too complicated for the average (non-developer) user.
4. S&R takes up way too much space (screen estate) of the window.

-> Therefore I propose to enable the Search highlighting in Scroll-bar Minimap
for Find.

Which really should be a no-brainer and I'm kind of disappointed that one has
to write a bug-report for such an obvious thing. I mean look at chromium, adobe
pdf, etc. everywhere it is enabled on find, why  would you make such a feature
so hidden, really??
/rant

Reproducible: Always

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