Hit Ctrl-R. Enter text in the replace field. Hit Ctrl-F (making the replace field go away). Git Ctrl-R again. The replace field does not retain the text it had previously. My version of Kate actually reports its version as 3.13.3...but 3.13.2 is the highest version that is in the list box here...
Confirmed. Arch Linux 64-bit Kate 16.04.2 KDE Frameworks 5.22.0 Qt 5.6.1 xcb wm
Can't reproduce it at the moment Kate says 19.03
For me it is still lost.
Confirmed still an issue on kate from git master.
Git commit 2ca75c1bd8b0acd1a9889f5dee39a60f46331314 by Jan Paul Batrina. Committed on 25/01/2021 at 06:18. Pushed by jbatrina into branch 'searchbar-replace-text'. Retain replacement text as long as the power search bar is not closed M +7 -1 src/search/katesearchbar.cpp https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/commit/2ca75c1bd8b0acd1a9889f5dee39a60f46331314