Ah Erikari post just before me! Ah well, I'll post anyway!
1) We tried a few highlights before settling on something subtle. It can be very distracting when there are many matches. We may improve it in the future.
2) Spine has two modes: text search and text filtering. If you want filtering, open the tree filter popup (click the button with the yellow or red filter button) and check Text search filters
. This will hide items that do not match. Note when the tree filter is active, it will also only show the item types you have selected on the tree filter popup. You can press Reset
to select them all if you only care about Text search filters
. Also note that you can right click the filter button to toggle it on/off, which is very convenient.
3) Most hotkeys are disabled when a text field has focus.
Thanks for your feedback! Please feel free to keep giving feedback as you use it more.