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Change

Removes the chat's own message search: the floating Find in messages button, the Mod+F shortcut that opened it, and its panel (added in #951, placement fixed in #1115). Mod+F in a chat goes back to the browser's find. Find in terminal (Mod+Shift+F) is unchanged.

Removed along with it:

• src/components/ChatFind.tsx/.css, src/lib/chatSearch.ts and its test
• the row match highlight, the user-message fold that opened on a match, and ChatRowMemory.outputChanged (only search read it)
• the --chat-find-menu-space pane-menu inset from fix(chat): keep Find clear of pane menus #1115
• seven strings in each of the ko/ja/zh dictionaries
• the Find rows in docs/guide.md and DESIGN.md

The feature was never released, so the unreleased fragments are edited (chat-find-menu-placement.md deleted, the Find sentences dropped from two others) and no Removed entry is added.

Tests

• scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts used Find to reach offscreen and older rows. A reveal() helper now scrolls there instead; the search-only steps (match count, earlier-page cancel/retry) are gone. Passes at all four sizes/themes.
• scripts/narrow-pane-demo-regression.ts drops its Find placement block. The script still fails at "a split under 80 columns" (84 cols at 13px), and fails the same way on current main (checked on a clean main worktree), so that failure is pre-existing and unrelated.
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📝 Summary

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• Removed
  • Chat message search is no longer available, including search controls, result previews, and searching earlier messages. The Mod+F shortcut no longer opens chat search.
  • Search-specific highlighting and navigation have been removed. Minimap navigation remains available.
• Documentation
  • Updated the user guide and related documentation to reflect the removal of chat search.

The pull request removes chat message search, its timeline integration, and related documentation and translations. Browser QA now uses scrolling to reach rows and continues to check row restoration and remote identity.

Changes: Chat Find removal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove chat search from the chat view src/components/ChatView.tsx, src/components/ChatTimeline.*, src/components/ChatFind.*, src/lib/chatSearch*, src/lib/chatRowState.tsx, src/lib/i18n.*, src/components/PaneCanvas.css, DESIGN.md, docs/guide.md, changelog.d/*	The chat view no longer provides message search or match navigation. The search helpers, timeline search state and styling, related translations, and search references in documentation and changelogs are removed.
Update browser regression checks scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts, scripts/narrow-pane-demo-regression.ts	The browser QA fixture uses scrolling instead of search to reach rows. Search-specific checks and pane-placement checks are removed; row restoration and remote identity checks remain.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: haeminway1

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 43997

The change is mergeable with a small documentation correction: the chat-turn design still describes the removed Find behavior.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 3 files. (4 skipped: 4…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely states the main change: removing Find in messages from chat.
Description check		The description explains the behavior change, lists the removed components, documents the changelog treatment, and reports validation results. It uses a Tests heading instead of the template's Validat…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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🟡 Minor · Remove the stale Find behavior from the chat-turn design. · DESIGN.md:886-887

DESIGN.md:886-887
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the stale Find behavior from the chat-turn design.

Chat Find no longer lands on turns or opens folded messages. Delete the claim that Find opens a cut message, so this design does not specify a removed interaction.

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Review comment at @DESIGN.md around lines 886 - 887:
Remove the stale Find interaction claim from the chat-turn design: update the
sentence so it no longer says Find landing on a turn opens a cut message, while
preserving the surrounding description of how matches relate to the fold.

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- Around line 886-887: Remove the stale Find interaction claim from the
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📒 Files selected for processing: 19

• DESIGN.md
• changelog.d/chat-find-menu-placement.md
• changelog.d/docs-t3-features.md
• changelog.d/t3code-ports-and-chat-rendering.md
• docs/guide.md
• scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts
• scripts/narrow-pane-demo-regression.ts
• src/components/ChatFind.css
• src/components/ChatFind.tsx
• src/components/ChatTimeline.css
• src/components/ChatTimeline.tsx
• src/components/ChatView.tsx
• src/components/PaneCanvas.css
• src/lib/chatRowState.tsx
• src/lib/chatSearch.test.ts
• src/lib/chatSearch.ts
• src/lib/i18n.ja.ts
• src/lib/i18n.ko.ts
• src/lib/i18n.zh.ts

💤 Files with no reviewable changes: 12

• changelog.d/chat-find-menu-placement.md
• src/lib/i18n.ko.ts
• src/lib/chatRowState.tsx
• src/lib/i18n.ja.ts
• src/components/ChatFind.css
• src/components/PaneCanvas.css
• src/lib/chatSearch.test.ts
• src/lib/i18n.zh.ts
• scripts/narrow-pane-demo-regression.ts
• src/components/ChatTimeline.css
• src/lib/chatSearch.ts
• src/components/ChatFind.tsx

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