Optionally avoid Sublime using macOS system find buffer

[qzne]

Sublime Text uses the system find buffer. This means that if I search something in Sublime (with cmd+F or Edit > Find), it automatically appears in the search box in apps like Safari (also using cmd+F or Edit > Find).

There is some discussion about this for the Zed and Atom text editors:
zed#17467 Integrate with macOS system find buffer
atom#4650 Atom doesn’t respect/update OSX’s find pasteboard / clipboard

Unlike zed and atom, Sublime does integrate this way. But I don’t want it to! What I’m looking for navigating pages in Safari has almost nothing to do with what I’m searching for in code, especially if I’m regularly performing find tasks in both apps at once!

Of course I could holler at Apple to just let me have its internal search pasteboard not automatically synchronized across applications. But good luck getting anywhere with that.

[qzne]

See Request: Mac: Use selection for find for some prior discussion.

Notably, from jps, emphasis mine:

Your example is indeed the way it’s supposed to work: all applications on OS X work this way. There’s no setting to disable this within Sublime Text, and even if one was added, it’d seem futile: all your other applications would still use the shared system find pasteboard.

But I disagree. It’s true that it’s ultimately futile. But I don’t need the ultimate in Cmd+F isolation. I just want Sublime to be independent of other apps (like Safari). That is something that could be in Sublime’s own control (and mine, in my preferences).

[bschaaf]

You can use the "use_find_clipboard" setting to disable find pasteboard integration.