From en.wiki, emphasis mine:
"I use VE as my primary editor but sometimes it drives me crazy. I can see something in an article, go in to fix it and then I can't "Find" it. After spending a moment to go back out of Edit mode to Read mode to confirm I have spelled the word correctly or whatever, I repeat the edit and again nothing happens. Eventually the penny drops that the thing I want to change must be in a template of some kind and that I will have to use the source editor. Unfortunately we have a lot of articles that look like "normal text" but are in fact chock full of templates. Same problem with citations. The Find tool needs a option to enable search inside templates and citations because you have to edit these things. Kerry (talk) 23:40, 12 September 2016 (UTC) "