make search highlighting stick around after find window closes

When you search for a piece of text, the matches in the file are highlighted as you type. That's cool! The problem is, once I press Escape to get out of the search dialog, the highlighting vanishes. I'll often want to use Cmd+G to jump to the next instance of what I wanted, but without search highlighting, I'm effectively jumping blind, and I don't know where my caret will land until it gets there. Combine that with the fact that I can't use a block cursor, and I keep on getting lost in my editor.