When searching with the editor you can press CONTROL-F and popup the box to enter the search string. After finding the first reference you can close the box and press F3 to find each subsequent string.
If you press CONTROL-Y to delete the line just found you can press keep pressing F3 for the next occurrence. When you reach the LAST string that matches the search string and press CONTROL-Y the editor will highlight the characters in the same column positions of the line below where the string was found in the line deleted. If you press F3 at that point it will now find that string of characters. If the line just below the one you delete is shorter than the one deleted it does NOT highlight any characters.
Sorry if this is not very clear.
Not a big deal but if you were finding and deleting a series of lines you might find a line after the last deletion that did not match what you expected and delete it.