Why is the Find command in Notes always disabled?

I would like to be able to locate text inside of notes in the Mac OS X version of Notes. The Find, Find Next, Find Previous, and Find Selected Text commands all exist in the Edit>Find sub-menu but they're always disabled. Is there something wrong with my installation of Mountain Lion or are these commands always disabled? How can I enable these Find commands in Notes?

Entering text in the search sidebar filters the notes containing the text entered in the box, but it does not enable the Find commands nor highlight the text within the note. If you want to find the desired text within a very long note —and I'm sure we all have a few— you must copy the text into another application and use that application's Find command, make your changes, then paste the text back into the note.
My question still stands. How can I enable the Find command which exists in Notes but which is always disabled? Is this simply a feature that was planned but never implemented? If the command was never intended to work in Notes, why was it included in the menu? Finally, since the Find command is standard in every other text editor, why would it not be included in Notes?
As a Mac developer, I'm tempted to try and hack it into working, but I'd rather not have to.

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