Make Ctrl+Shift+F search whole app, not just code

[hugetim]

Please make the CTRL-Shift-F search in the IDE include all .yaml information entered in the Properties panel of the designer: text properties, event-handling methods, Custom HTML files, data bindings code, etc.

@stefano.menci

Data binding and yaml and table names and roles and css and anything that contains useful information, whether is looks pretty or not.

In particular, if I define the text of a Label in the IDE, it should include matches on that text, just as it would if I had defined the text in code.

This would be helpful whether it looks pretty or not. Even if the search result is just one of those unformatted text strings that shows up in the git diffs when a setting changes, that’s better than nothing–it tells me that there’s something in that form/module that matches my search string.

[hugetim]

Some examples of how this would help:

@gabriel.duro.s

I prefer to don’t have custom html if I don’t intend to use it. It’s harder to detect and the “Find” feature don’t search in those parts of the forms, so it’s harder to find styles that may work in unintend ways.

@p.colbert

if I rename an event-handler, and a button is already bound to that handler, then the “search” should reach into the Template (.yaml file) and find it there, too.

(Note: This feature request differs from that thread because it’s only asking for an enhancement to the global search, not a global replace capability.)

[stefano.menci]

One more example: Add native libraries to search results with Ctrl-Shift-F

My workaround is to clone and use ctrl+shift+F in PyCharm.

[hugetim]

I also missed this one:

@stefano.menci

I would like to add components whose name or databind expressions contain the searched text.
I think they do belong there because component names are used in the code and databind expressions tehmselves are code.