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I just discovered that you can't search the .css templates for strings between @property tags. If this functionality can be added somehow that would be good.
It seems to me that the solution is to simply store cached copies of the .css templates with the properties already filled in (as they appear in the template editor). The cost would be extra processing at save time. The question is, is the cost too much?