In the context of a graphical user interface, some EDT commands aquire additional capabilities.
The FIND and REPLACE commands, for example, acquire all the capabilities of the full-featured Find and Replace dialog boxes within the NetBeans IDE Source Editor. These include the search history (from the drop-down entry field) and optional highlighting.
(See also: Core IDE Help: Editing Source Files: Finding and Replacing Text.)
This illustrates the highlighting function in the Find dialog box in the Source Editor
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