could "search and replace" be used as a "temporary cell filter" option ?

In some Office suites Spreadsheet, you can use the "search" function to filter cells, like in a split/apply/combine:
- `show me all cells with print, so I can check if they respect the standard print () format"
- (doing my parenthesis work on this old Ipython tutorial)
- remove the temporary filter.

(the same idea could apply to the "http://localhost:8888/tree", I thought it was but I may have mistaken)