Menu & Button Search Expansions

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@leo & @jon

i'd like to make a feature request that i feel many of us would find helpful...

...of expanding the great search functionality of the the Prefs panel to include menus & toolbar buttons (at least this area) and\or the hotkeys & commands of the Customize panels as well, from search window that already on the main menu toolbar.

ive been spending a lot of time in text editors recently. NotePad++ has this features as a plugin and it great! GitHub - peter-frentrup/NppMenuSearch: Notepad++ Menu Search Plugin
Not only does it serach the text in the 3 or 4 settings panels but also the the text in the plugins\extentions, most of which have there own settings panels.

seeing this more apps rectenly, most of them call it a "command panel". vs code, obsiaian, and markdown monster have similar search bars on the front GUI that search both settings, files & commands.

you guys have been going in that direction with the > command bar expansions in v13.

which are great! im love it!

this is were i start trailing off topic off from my original request idea...
just today came up with a simple way to send\open files using the > command box via creating UserCommands that are nearly just copy & paste of the bottons on my custom apps bar.......

i'll ramble about that on another post soon

Thanks!

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I will second this suggestion/request. Not knowing what I don't know (????) what this awesome software can do and all of the available bells and whistles hidden all over the myriad of menus and toolbars is a problem I would be willing to guess 80% of it's users have. I think this would not only assist people finding something they are actively looking for but also reveal to a user how limitless the customization of DOpus really is.

Just my two cents. Well, maybe cent and a half.

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The Customize panel already lets you search it.

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agreed. i went nuts reworking, the main main menu, moved everything from operations up, creating new menus with customs functions.... now if i i can just remember in which menu i put that button....?? LOL

i use search bar in NPP all the time, their menus and prefs panels are extensive like dopus'. its surface level text search is instant and spot on.

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It would be awesome if we could search (without opening customize), and even restrict searches to a toolbar(s) using a new search field that could be added to a toolbar.

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