Set version 0.3, update help and changelog.

Author: Coises

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Search++: An enhanced search plugin for Notepad++
 
+## Version 0.3 -- March 28th, 2026
+
+* Fix error that caused backward searches to fail in some cases.
+* Fix replaced marked text not being marked in some cases.
+* Make Shift+click on Find and Replace buttons reverse direction for Plain text searches.
+* Add functions to clear the search results list.
+* Clarify the search results list context menu a bit.
+* Update help file for changes. Clarify the effect of stepwise search in selection.
+
 ## Version 0.2 -- March 27th, 2026
 
 * Fix failure to reset `match` counter after a Replace All.

help.htm

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 p.note {padding: 0 1.5em; font-size: .93em;}
+li > p.note:last-child {padding-bottom: 0.5em;}
 
 div.standout {margin: 1em 0; padding: .5em 1em; border: 5px double #000;}
 
@@ -241,6 +242,8 @@ <h3>Search command buttons</h3>
 
 <p>You can Shift+click an item in the drop-down menu for a command button to perform its action <strong><em>and make it the new direct click action for the button</em></strong>. The first item in each menu is the default action for the button, so you can always reset it whenever you wish.</p>
 
+<p>When <strong>Plain</strong> text search is selected, you can Shift+click the <strong>Find</strong> or <strong>Replace</strong> button to reverse the direction of the search (swap <strong>Forward</strong> and <strong>Backward</strong>).</p>
+
 <p>A detailed description of the available commands is provided in the <a href="#commands">Search commands</a> section of this help.</p>
 
 <h3>Search options</h3>
@@ -277,6 +280,8 @@ <h3>Tools</h3>
 
 <li><strong>Unmark All Text</strong> removes the marker <strong>Search++</strong> is using from all text in the active document.
 
+<li><strong>Clear search results list</strong> removes all results currently accumulated in the search results list.
+
 <li><strong>Settings...</strong> opens the Search++ <a href="#settings">Settings</a> dialog.
 
 </ul>
@@ -345,7 +350,11 @@ <h3 id="commands-scopes">Search scopes</h3>
 
 <li><strong>Whole Document</strong> means selections and marks are ignored; everything in the document (subject to any <em>direction</em> constraint) is searched.
 
-<li><strong>Selection</strong>: If there is a non-empty selection — single, rectangular or multiple — the search will be confined to the selected text. Note that for a regular expression search, each line in a rectangular selection and each selection in a multiple selection is searched independently; the search in any line or selection cannot “see” outside that selection. This affects the behavior of assertions (including word boundaries, lookaheads and lookbehinds, <strong>^</strong> and <strong>$</strong>). If there is no selection, then the search will encompass the entire document.
+<li><p><strong>Selection</strong>: If there is a non-empty selection — single, rectangular or multiple — the search will be confined to the selected text. If there is no selection, the search will encompass the entire document.</p>
+
+<p class=note>Because a <strong>Find</strong> command, or the preliminary find step in a replace command, selects the found text, subsequent commands won’t be confined to the originally-selected text, since it will no longer be selected. To avoid this, you can use <strong>Selections 🡪 Marked Text</strong> from the <strong>Tools</strong> button menu before searching, or check the box <strong>Convert selections to marked text before beginning a stepwise search</strong> in the <a href="#settings">Settings</a> dialog.</p>
+
+<p class=note>For a regular expression search, each line in a rectangular selection and each selection in a multiple selection is searched independently; the search in any line or selection cannot “see” outside that selection. This affects the behavior of assertions (including word boundaries, lookaheads and lookbehinds, <strong>^</strong> and <strong>$</strong>).</p>
 
 <li><strong>Marked Text</strong>: If there is any marked text, only marked text will be searched; if the document contains no marked text, the whole document will be searched. The considerations above concerning selections apply to marked text as well: regular expressions treat each span of marked text independently from other spans and from the surrounding unmarked text.