It's impossible to restrict find/replace to a selection. When find/replace window opens selection is cleared. Selecting text again when window is shown makes no difference and replacing is performed on entire document anyway.
forwarded 336563 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150010
thanks
Hi,
Thanks for your report. FYI, this particular feature has already been
requested upstream at:
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150010>
Cheers,