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When comparing two files, there is no "find" functionality for either text box showing the contents of those files. This would be incredibly useful, especially when comparing different versions of a file, and needing to find declarations.
I'm not sure what do you mean by "'find' functionality". There is the Find/Replace dialog. But if you meant References/Declarations from the context menu the only thing I can suggest you at this moment is a workaround: right click on either left or right pane, select Open With and in the newly opened editor try to find declarations. Is this what you need? There is a bug for enhancing the compare editor with more features from the Java editor[1], please take a look at it and let me know if I can mark this one as a dupe/blocker. [1] bug 169386
Apologies for lack of clarity. The Find/Replace dialog is available when comparing two files. However, it is NOT available when applying a patch and comparing the local file with the patched file. This is what I intended to describe. Having the Find/Replace dialog for the compare section would be useful; it is already very useful when comparing two files. I had earlier believed that the same compare utility was used in both place; again, apologies for the confusion. This bug is not related to bug 169386, but that enhancement would be useful also.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
