When trying to find (search for) text in a selected region kate does not confine its search to selected text This may be a repeat of an old bug 190479 System info: Kate Version 16.08.2 KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 QT 5.6.1 xcb windowing system OpenSuse Leap 42.2 x86_64
I can't reproduce, can you please retest and confirm if this is still an issue k3bBug.
This is working in Kate 20.04.2 - this can be closed.