Feature Request: Limit Scope of a "Find" and "Change"

[hsiangch_ong]

let's say that today I am focusing all my efforts on a block between lines 5000 to 7000. It would be great if for the Search > Find... and Search > Change... we could have an option to limit searches to specific ranges. Maybe even multiple ranges could be specified like 5000 - 7000, 8000 - 8500.

i support this.  however the qb64 editor wasn't really designed for monolithic text files which are 2mb and larger in size.  on linux on my computers geany or kwrite.  takes several seconds to load a text file that large.

otherwise my advice is to have another program editor to hand.  like notepad++ on windows.  then search and replace within a selection could be done with those programs.  for example in geany.  just select the lines you want to search in.  then press ctrl+h.  make sure you press "in selection" button for replace.  can't tell it to focus on a range of lines.  notepad++ and scite should be similar.  since both are based on scintilla.

the qb64pe ide has the ability to search inside string literals only.  and/or comments.  i have never used this option.  because i use other text editors to compose my code.