How to avoid double or triple use of key words?

Perhaps Santa Claus will bring us a feature in SCRIVENER (SCR) that I always wanted to use in the last few years, but not had:

SEARCH

The inbuilt Search-Function of SCR ist great. I like it very much and use it very often. Especially the possibility to search global in all documents and then skip immediately into a single chapter search with the same search-topic - flawless. That’s very fast and effective. For non-fiction-writer a splendid way to do research.

But, there is something that nearly every author needs - in fiction and non-fiction text: the fast overview of words in the near vicinity of the actual writing spot.

What does that mean? If discussing a topic in a document with komplex explanations, I always wanted to know, whether I have used a special word shortly. It’s a bit bulky and bad sounding when I apply the same word as I did 4 or 7 lines above the actual line. That’s clumsy. It also sounds clumsy when read out loudly on front of people. - This all happens when I write in a flush, fast and dirty. But after rereading - mostly minutes or hours later - sometimes days - it often turns out that I already used a significant term, a word or sentence. But how often do I have to control such things in the text? To often! Time is honey.

My proposal: an inbuilt search function that controls 10 lines above and 10 lines under the point where the cursor stands at the moment. I double-click on the word I want, and - immediately - this word is underlined or underlayed with nice color in the direct vicinity of a few lines (perhaps chosable). Then I can decide in seconds whether I use the same word again oder change it inside their lines above or below. This is also very useful when you read a long text after a long while.

This is what Santa Claus should have in his sled - as soon as possible. I would pay something for that feature, because it makes my text better and more versatile. Time is honey.

Thank you - Nikolaus.

Auschiller

While maybe some common “problem text” searches like this could be useful, do note that it supports regular expressions, which can do all kinds of searches like this and an endless amount of other things to.

Even if you don’t know how to use it, you can copy and paste examples from others that do. If you scroll down a bit in that thread, you will find another useful and more complicated one that will find multiple word use within a certain distance to each other.

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