Find Dialog: integrate searching in files pls
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When I want to search in files, it happens on occasions that I set the Directory and then find that the "Find what" combobox doesn't contain the right words to search for. I have to close the Find in files dialog now and change the "Find what" text. Now I have to open the Find in files dialog again, and because it doesn't keep the search directory, I have to select that again. This is very annoying.
Can't you simply move the Filters and Directory of the Find in files dialog to the Find dialog itself? This will avoid having to do these things over and over again.
You could simply create another panel on the dialog, which gets enabled or disabled after clicking on the Find in files button or make it a checkbox (similar to how the Switch dialog button works). This also helps in enabling to change all other find settings, without the problems mentioned above.
Could you also, please, fix keeping the last used search Directory and Filters, which the current Find in files dialog doesn't?
Could you also, please, remember more search Directory and Filters entries than the last one and/or the start-up value(s)?
A button to "Open all files" that match the find text could be very handy.
It could go along with an option to "Close all opened files first".
This would be an easy way to create a set of files to work on and next to that "free" the found files list in the find dialog. One could do any further searching within this set of files simply by using "Find in all opened files", without having to search within all files that match the file pattern Filters. The set of opened files could also be easily extended by doing any additional "Find in files" this way.