Not sure why this is, or if i need to enable something somewhere… But I just noticed that you can’t search text variable nets as they appear, but instead you have to search what their text variable is named…
For example I had an interlock signal which is called and appears on the schematic as “PRIVATE_INTERLOCK”, but when you double click on the label you see ${PRIVATE_INTLCK}… Now if I do Ctrl + F, and type “PRIVATE_INTERLOCK” nothing shows up… not until I type “PRIVATE_INTLCK”. Seems to partially defeat the purpose of the text variables - which enable easy swapping of signal names that could travel cross many sheets or may simply be instantiated at many points on the schematic.
Change the variable and it changes all the places where its used - very convenient… by why wouldn’t it search based on what it appears as?
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor (64-bit)
Version: (6.0.11), release build
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Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
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Date: Jan 26 2023 07:02:30
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