Basic usability issues with search & replace

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VS Code Version: 1.58.2
OS Version: Windows 10 2004

Compared to other text editors or IDEs, Visual Studio Code's most basic search & replace functionality is broken in numerous ways:

When trying to make a replacement of a string, the selection is reset

Select a block of code.
Type in the text to replace -- this incorrectly resets the selection.
Attempting to enable "find in selection" will set the selection to the first match, not the original selection.

Toggling any button resets selections if there's a matching string.

Open the search & replace box, with a memorised search string in the find box.
Press any button, such as "use regular expressions", "find in selection", etc...
The selection will be reset (incorrectly).

(similarly, going back to a search item in the history also resets selections).

The history keyboard shortcut is the opposite of every other Windows IDE or text editor I just assumed VS Code has no search history because it doesn't respond to the standard keystroke that all other editors use. There is also no visual "prompt" indicating that a history exists unlike most other editors (which use combo boxes).

   VS Code:       UP
   Visual Studio: DOWN
   Notepad++:     DOWN
   TextPAD:       DOWN
   IntelliJ:      ALT+DOWN
   MS Word:       DOWN

There is no way to view search history The only method is to scroll back one at a time, unlike most other IDEs or text editors that use a combo box that can be opened and used to "pick" a specific entry.

Search in selection doesn't work consistently with "block select" Selecting a block of code using middle-click-drag doesn't interact well with search. I can't even get reproducible scenarios! Just trying this a few times in a row resulted in different effects, including two different selection highlights on top of each other, as well as a search indicating that "nothing matches" unexpectedly:

microsoft / vscode

Basic usability issues with search & replace #128810