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It would be useful if the "Fast Open" dialog offered the option of opening the file in the explorer view, rather than the editor. This would save a bunch of annoying pointing and clicking when you need to do a file based operation (e.g. copying the file, or if you want to locate it in order to move it, etc.).
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 18856 ***