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Dear Programmers...

(Maybe this does not only apply to kate, but is an issue deeper down in the kde libs ...)

It would be nice, to have a possibility to cancel the search action in order to get back to the cursor position where the search has been initiated.

Description:

open kate editor, open a text file, large enough, to let the text scroll down as you type during the search....

Lets say I search for "wine" in a big file...

ctrl-f
"w" - will hit somewhere...
"wi" - will hit somewhere else further down
"win" - will hit even more further down
"wine" - lets assume: no results.

well, now my cursor position is far away from the "starting-position".

It would be now very nice, to have the possibility, to press a "cancel button" in the search-window and kate automatically jumps back to the stored cursor position, where I typed ctrl-f.

Maybe someone can implement this, because working with bookmarks is far from optimal for this issue ? Cheers !

That's why I liked old search window better - it stayed in place if nothing was found...