Search for a known phrase or word?

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What is searched?
By default, when you enter something into the deck browser search bar, Anki will search your whole collection for that phrase/query. All notes that match the query (e.g. contain a specific phrase) will be displayed.
You can get very specific with your searches too: See the chapter on searching in the official manual or play around with the different filters of the search bar.

No match highlighting
Anki currently does not feature highlighting of keywords within the matching notes (like ctrl+f in your internet browser would do).
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Highlighting of Search Results in Browser

With the upcoming browse window updates coming in 2.1.41 (of which I early await the release of), I wonder if it might be possible for highlighting of search results to be added as a feature? Currently, typing a word/phrase into the search field finds associated notes but it can be difficult finding that specific part of a card. This can become especially annoying when trying to adjust multiple cards at once. Majority of applications have this functionality already and I feel that it would be …