I would like to request a buffer search API. This would highlight all instances inside the buffer which match the search with the current search position highlighted uniquely.

Alternatively if you would like to make this more generic and only provide the means by which one could implement search, I would like the ability to highlight parts of the buffer via the API as well as the ability to flatten the buffer ignoring any special colouring and character tags etc (right now when i use innerHTML, colouring breaks words and sentences searching, innerText for some reason is return character code 160 instead of 32 for spaces).