Add a right click to the sticky scroll header to allow searching in a scope

[Emily1799]

When the user has sticky scroll on, allow them to right click the sticky scroll header and select 'search' and have that target the control/command f search bar to be solely in the scope shown by that sticky scroll level.

This would be useful when working in a file with many large functions/methods, and would provide an intuitive interface to search a single function or method.

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[ArturoDent]

This is interesting. But it would require a contribution point for the sticky scroll (so an extension could add a search in this function/file command) and adding the find or search capability to restrict the find/search scope to functions - which also doesn't exist.

[Emily1799]

I'm not familiar with the associated source at all, unfortunately, this was just an idea from struggling in a 10,000 line Java file with some massive functions in it, gotta love legacy code.

I imagine sticky scroll / the expand-collapse stuff keeps track of the line numbers associated with its 'scopes' somewhere... but yeah, it's definitely more complicated if the search code doesn't presently have the option to restrict within a range of line numbers. Thank you for the input!