I want to ONLY replace "Old" with "New" in the selected line, so I open the dialog with CTRL+R and the "What:" text box says Old, "With:" text box says New; I select "In selection". I hit "Find next"/"Replace", the first value it finds it replaces, but it lost the original selected line, the selection changed when it found the first item.
Borland Delphi 7 editor does this by retaining the original selection, and when it finds a match it uses a different highlighting color within the original selection. It would also be nice if AkelPad could prompt before replacing.
"Replace All" works, but half the times I would want to replace some parts of the text, not every part. That's currently not possible in Akelpad for reasons outlined above (no selection within selection support).