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I suggest adding new selection functions to the "Navigate" menu: - Select open documents in Projects - Select open documents in Files - Select open documents in Favorites These should behave just like their respective, already present, single-document equivalents, but for all opened documents. So, for example, if I have document1.php, document2.txt, document3.yml open, and I select "Select open documents in Projects", I have these 3 documents selected in the "Projects" pane, which pops up when selection is done. This allows for the following, as I think, very convenient use cases: - Create a patch for all files I have changed during a bugfix (changed files are still open) - Find the occurrence of a search string in any open document using "Find in Projects" with scope "Selection" (e.g. locate all "var_dumps" added during debugging) - Commit all changes made during a task to my SCM using context menu in File browser Note how this feature would be especially useful together with Tushar Joshi's "nbtaskfocus" that manages the "open documents" selection based on a task context.
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Still valid in 8.2 dev Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201607100002)