When I do a search by format (comment, character format, etc) it would be nice that when there was a hit, besides highlighting the text, the binder highlight should also move to the relevant binder entry. That way one can see where the hit is within the overall document; otherwise you have to search around a bit.
Great product.
Don
Opt-Cmd-R will reveal the current selection in the Binder for you. Doing this automatically would be undesirable in most cases, as it would entail the program disturbing the user-maintained disclosure state, or to put it less technically: you’d lose your outline arrangement if the program was flying around opening stuff up to reveal the search location.
Also note you can use a more passive method for discovering location now. Click on the header bar icon and hover the mouse over the “Path” menu item. That will show you the current item’s hierarchy in ascending order.
Thanks for that. I’ll put a little sticky by my computer with this (and a zillion other commands from a wide range of programs) to remind me what to do. (That is NOT a sarcastic comment; just a statement of reality.)
Don
I hear you. 
Here is a logical way of thinking about it: Scrivener’s menus are organised in a big-to-small way from left to right. On the far left you have the biggest chunk of all “Scrivener”. Then you have File, which has to do with managing projects and interfacing with the rest of your computer. Edit and View are a small departure from this, because they are Apple conventions, but the metaphor picks right back up after that with the Project menu, then the next step down from that, Documents, then Formatting within those documents. Now, not everything is hyper-logical because there are shades of grey here and there—some menus and the items within them could conceivably be defined as two different things, but if you know roughly what scope you are looking for, you can start in one direction and work toward finding it. Finally Window and Help, which again are Apple conventions so their positioning really shouldn’t be messed with (even though Apple sees fit to do so on occasion).
In this case, what you want to do is view the document in context with its neighbours. The View menu seems like a good place to start with that. You could also logically define that as a “Project” level action, but the Project menu is mainly for the maintenance of a project. So in the View menu, you can see right at the top level, toward the bottom, “Reveal in Binder”.
Another way of finding something is to use the Help menu. You might not know what the command is, or even if it is exists, but if you can think of a logical thing it might be called, you can search for it. In the Help menu, if you start typing in the search box on Leopard and higher, the Mac will produce a list of menu commands which match what you’ve typed. In your case, the safe word to look for might be “Binder”. If you typed that in, you’ll see the fourth search result is “Reveal in Binder”. If you scroll down to it with the arrow keys, the Mac will even highlight that spot for you so you can find it again without searching for it.