To demonstrate this behavior, here is an example of how the "Find Results" tab might look after performing two searches - one for "hello" and one for "world":

Searching 0 files for "hello" (regex)

0 matches

Searching 0 files for "world" (regex)

0 matches

Note that there is nothing to stop you from closing the tab or deleting it's contents before performing another search, but I can see how having an accumulate_find_results preference might help with productivity. Also, it's possible to rename the tab when outputting results to a buffer to get a clean tab per search.

You may also find a plugin like https://packagecontrol.io/packages/BetterFindBuffer useful.

I'd like to suggest another option for this: Opening new search result in a new buffer (either numbered or by including the search term in the tab name).

Or may be even better, show the results on reverse order and folding the last search result as Notepad++ does, it would be the same effect as the OP @garyemerson is asking for and we would have the search history to open it, in case we think it is interesting.

@keith-hall Yea that's what I do now which is what made me think it might be nice for sublime to just do the clearing for me. Thanks for the plugin suggestion! This definitely seems doable with a plugin.

@FichteFoll, @evandrocoan great ideas! I was originally thinking just a boolean setting but I think with your suggestions that a multiple-option setting would make more sense. Options could be something like "in_buffer", "none", "new_buffer" and "fold".