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It doesn't make sence to have the menu item always enabled. When auto selection is enabled, search is run automatically and availability of "Find In Hot Spots" menu item little bit confusing. Disable it when autoselection is enabled is better decision (like it was done for "Find In Call Tree" on Combined tab, Hot Spots section's context menu ).
You're right, 'Find In Hot Spots' shouldn't be enabled when auto selection is on. It works correctly for me both in NB 6.8 and NB 6.9 devbuilds. Probably already fixed. Could you please verify that I'm not overlooking anything on my side? Closing as WORKSFORME, please reopen if you can still reproduce the problem using NB 6.8+. Thanks.