A Better Text Find & Replace User Interface. Mark Alldritt, Mark Alldritt's Journal (2010-12-31). I have never been happy with the Text Find & Replace panel in my applications (Script Debugger and Affrus). I started with a version of the Find panel that first appeared in Apple's Text Edit and many other early Mac OS X applications. Here's an example from the currently shipping… (Linked Friday 2011-01-07.)