The new non-modal find/replace dialog box is a huge improvement over the old one. The various checkboxes are now independent of each other, so "replace in selection" is not much safer and fairly easy. Still a few minor quibbles:
- No "close after action" option (that I've found so far), so the dialog sticks around. No big deal, but auto-close was one justifications for the modal dialog box (which you can still select as an option).
- The option key does not temporarily enable "in selection". Maybe someday.
- The report for number of replacements is a modal dialog rather than a Growl-type notification. Fortunately it is easy to turn off.

Many other nice improvements. I especially appreciate *finally* being able to edit text in other views (e.g. browsers). But for me the non-modal find/replace is the biggie. I've been using other editors for years due to the older horrible find/replace dialog box. I was very happy to come back to BBEdit.