Settings: Show highlight of match

[octref]

#50496

Currently words in search query aren't highlighted, as they are in the json editor.

[roblourens]

This is by design actually, since the highlights are distracting and misleading when they don't included the synonyms and misspelled matches that bing search gives us.

[octref]

It would still be quite useful - when I type a word I want to know which part of the description / setting name it matches against. For cases like misspell or fooBar should match both foo and bar, we can try to handle them more gracefully (maybe ask Bing to return synonym / matched word info), but just the simple exact match would already be quite useful.

[roblourens]

maybe ask Bing to return synonym / matched word info

We did try this but there were too many false positives and it was a bit noisy. I'll leave this open, maybe a less eye-catching highlight would help. But in user studies we saw people skipping results that didn't have a bright orange highlight, even when it was the correct answer.

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