@harry-brookes , @peterjones “the devil is in the details” And there are more details than I knew existed. The details have details. It’s easy for a naïve multi-threaded implementation to be slower than a single-threaded implementation, as was demonstrated when @guy038 ran a test of my search on a folder on a USB stick. I’m working now on improving it. It’s incredible how many ways there are to shoot yourself in the foot with multi-threading. I’ll feel validated if I can come up with something that is sometimes better than single-threaded and never worse than single-threaded. It remains to be seen if I can do it.

@Sam-Fourie , It’s been suggested before, as in issue #17430. The developer stated explicitly: It’s not my intesion to “lock” the document by using “Pin a document”. It’s just a way to make the documents grouped in front so users find them more easily. Checked with MS VC Studio, their behaviour is the same as Notepad++, and I think it’s the right behaviour. It works the way the developer wants, and he has rejected the suggestion to make it work the way you want. update: I’m not saying it’s not a good idea. Just that the developer (who is the final decision maker) is the one you’d need to convince. And, given that he’s already rejected the idea, you’d have to come up with something more than “I really want it” to convince him otherwise (and it would have to be posted in the issues tracker, presumably as a reply to the issue I linked, not in the user Community).

@Troglo37 said: Another issue I’ve been dealing with is letters with accents. Many times I’ve searched for a name and couldn’t find it. Later on, I realized that it was because the name had an accent. So, I’ve had to painstakingly go through some of the names I have typed in and change the letters. I want to be able to copy and paste names without worrying about accents, and preferably have the correct spelling of the person’s name if they have accents. It has been requested before. At present there is a way, but not a convenient way. To search for a name like René you can use the following form as a regular expression: [[=r=]][[=e=]][[=n=]][[=e=]] Yes, it’s a pain in the butt. Maybe someday someone will make a simple switch for it. (Note to self: my still-in-progress Search++ plugin should have that as an option for plain text searches.)

Seems they decided that it they couldn’t be the heroes, rhat they would be the villains.