It looks like a couple of people have asked about this in the past, but none of 
the answers are working for me.  I am trying to clear the contents of a 
NSSearchField and have it go back to its empty state.  I don’t have a 
pre-Yosemite Mac handy to check if this is a bug / new behavior in Yosemite, 
however Apple Mail seems to be able to do it just fine.

Most of the solutions I have seen are old and center around doing things like:

        [[searchField.cell cancelButtonCell] performClick: self];

…or...

        searchField.stringValue = @“”;
        [searchField validateEditing];

Both of these methods do clear the NSSearchField’s string value, however the 
Cancel button remains visible and the search field does not go back to its 
empty state (magnifying glass centered, gray “Search” text placeholder, and 
Cancel button not visible).

I have had some marginal success by modifying outlineViewSelectionDidChange: to 
set the search field’s stringValue to @“”, do what needs to be done to update 
the other views, set the search field to the first responder, and then set the 
outline view back to the first responder.

That works somewhat, but not really.  Half the time the search field remains 
the first responder as if the call to set the outline view as the first 
responder never happened.

Any ideas?
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