Improve Find and Replace in annotations

I am recently using the Find and Replace feature rather often in the annotation window, especially for legends. However, there are some annoying problems with this function here. I am working in Igor 8 / 9 on Windows 10.

- It is not possible to replace text with nothing. If the Replace With field is empty simply nothing happens. This is different from the Replace feature for other windows like notebooks where this works. Here, replace with nothing = delete all instances.

- The Find Next and Find Previous arrows do not show where the current highlight is when the text-select cursor is not inside the annotation text. There should be a change in color for the highlighted item. This is especially annoying together with the next problem.

- Pressing Replace deselects the annotation text. Thus, it is a guessing game to jump over entries quickly, such as pressing Find Next and Replace in quick succession. While Find Next works, one has to count how many items the highlight jumps and hope for the best. The annotation text has to be selected again to know the correct position.

- The main reason why I want to jump over entries is because Replace does not discriminate between explanatory text and escape codes such as trace names in trace symbol codes. Usually one does not want to change anything in escape codes. See the attachment for an example. If I want to get rid of the ' character in the explanation but not the symbol codes, this will take some dedication because I have to either select the annotation every time I use Replace or have to pay close attention. Together with the problem that it is not possible to 'delete by replacing' anyway, its actually faster to just go through the text and delete the relevant sections by hand.

- This all may be circumvented by having the option to omit escape codes from the text selection or make Replace ignore these sections. Replace All would then do the work in one swoop.