[issue29382] IDLE search and replace should use 'hit' tag instead of 'hilite'

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[issue29382] IDLE search and replace should use 'hit' tag instead of 'hilite'

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: After the original bug for #18590 was fixed, I left it open for working on the tags. (Currently, Find and the find part of Replace work differently and at least one of them double tags found text.) I decided to close it and use this for the tag choice

[issue29382] IDLE search and replace should use 'hit' tag instead of 'hilite'

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The now-closed issues I remember were about hits not being visibly marked at all. For me, on Win 10 with 3.6, they are being marked. If you are referring to any discussion specifically about which tag to use, please post the issue numbers prefixed with '#',