How can I set search delay when typing in a search phrase?

[Bamsen]

When I open 'find' in a large file and starts to type the text to search for, the first letters cause a significant delay as SlickEdit finds every occurrence of 'e' in the whole file.
Is it possible to set a delay of f.x. 200ms after each character before searching starts so I can type the whole word before the search is initiated?
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Morten A. Steien

[Clark]

As a work around, turn off Search Highlighting

I'll take a look to see if another configuration option could help this.

[Clark]

Currently incremental searching is immediate (not on a timer). It's tool late to change this to a timer (not enough time to test/debug).

Making this option smaller would help:

Tools>Options>Editing>Search>Maximum buffer size for increment search(KB)  (Defaults to 50 megabytes).

However, this turns off incremental searching when you probably could get by just turning off search highlighting for large files.

[Graeme]

One way to handle this is to write a small "shim" dialog that processes your search string before handing it off to the real search dialog.  e.g it could wait for at least 3 characters, then as soon as there's a half second pause of no typing, it passes the search string so far to the real search dialog.  If the file is less than a certain size, the real dialog would come up immediately.

You can probably also automatically and dynamically turn search highlighting on/off (or incremental search), according to the file size.