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Add directional argument or flag to view.find

#1

If you want to find the next occurrence of something in a plugin, it’s effortless.

If you want to find the previous occurrence of something in a plugin, you have to use find_all and do a binary search. Presumably there’s a performance cost associated with it as well.

I assume it would be easy to add an argument that allows the find to run backward instead of forward. If so, please add it.

And, sorry, I admit I saw the feature request from 2012, but I just wanted to put it out here again: it would make a big difference.

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Searching backward
#2

Where is it?

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#3

Actually I found something from 2010 just now.

And I am now remembering that I asked about it in 2014 when I first got into Sublime Text.

2010 link on this topic

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#4

Where you asked in 2014?
Does it is already asked on the Core Issue tracker?

  1. https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues

If it is not already on the Core Issue tracker, you may report it there linking this thread as reference to keep the issues organized.

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