Brackets: Feature Request: Keep search bar open while editing

[spongessuck]

Right now, if you click in the edit panel, the search bar closes. It would be nice if the search bar would remain open while editing, or at least for it to remember the last thing you searched for. I often search around for matches to do some minor edits and move on to the next match, but I have to re-open the search and type my pattern again.

[kidwm]

and keep the highlight effects too.

[fabio-farolfi]

every time I have to reopen the search and type my pattern again.
I hope for a solution as it is terribly annoying.

[abose]

Search bar will now remember the last searched phrase. closing as fixed for 1.6.

[phanect]

Hi @abose,

Search bar will now remember the last searched phrase

It doesn't help when I want to:

1. Copy phrase from opening file and paste it as phrase to find
2. Copy another phrase from opening file and paste it as phrase to replace

Phrase to find is discarded when you copy another phrase.
So I appreciate if search bar is kept open, or Brackets remember last _entered_ phrase, not searched phrase.

[ChrisKlingler]

I also would really appreciate an option to keep the search tool open until voluntarily closed. I often like to search to a section then edit it then continue to the next instance found with search.

[Likewise42]

Just commenting to say that I would also like the search bar to stay open until I manually close it.