Make 'Find All in single file' more discoverable

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Issue by peterflynn
Saturday Nov 23, 2013 at 23:39 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#6093

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Spinning this off as a bug-sized chunk from the Find/Replace epic research.

Currently, it's possible get the Find All panel's bulk results listing for a single file by right-clicking that file and choosing "Find in..." -- but this isn't discoverable for some users.

Possible solutions:

• Add "Find all in current file" or somesuch to menu next to existing Find, Find All commands. (This would be more palatable if we forked off a new Search top-level menu, as suggested in [CLOSED] Active line highlight overrides live preview error highlight #6084).
• Add a button in the Find toolbar to switch the current search into Find All (in file) mode. (Some other editors have a gesture like this).

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Comment by MarcelGerber
Sunday Nov 24, 2013 at 00:40 GMT

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I like the second idea better (a Search menu would also be cool, but we needn't put to much things in). Maybe something like this?

If you like this one, I could try to work on it.

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Comment by lkcampbell
Friday Apr 11, 2014 at 18:13 GMT

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@peterflynn, your first suggestion should be addressed with the PR I just submitted: adobe/brackets#7488.

It adds a new "File in Selected File/Folder" menu item to the new Search menu.