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Bug 128597

Summary:	Pin and/or FLoat the Editor Find Panel
Product:	editor	Reporter:	mbarnes <mbarnes>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jrojcek
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description mbarnes 2008-02-27 17:28:41 UTC

There should be a way to make it so the Editor Find Panel is always
there on the editor pane.

As it is now, the user has to do something special to get it to appear:
CTL-F, Edit->Find, etc.  And if the user does anything else on the UI,
the Find Panel disappears!

Why not allow the user to "pin" this panel so its always there?

Ultimately, it would also be great if I could "float" this panel,
i.e. have it in its own window.  It suppose it would have to
operate only on the current editor tab.

(While we're at it, it would be great if Find were in the Editor's
Context Menu!)

Comment 1 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-02-28 09:17:48 UTC

Thanks for the ideas. I'm not sure about the popup menu, it tends to be quite long for most file types and adding
something so basic will only clutter it. Just my opinion. :-)

Comment 2 Milutin Kristofic 2011-08-03 09:51:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 157152 ***