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At present the File Search provides four scopes - Workspace, Selected resources, Enclosing projects and Working Sets. This request is for providing an additional search scope "Open Editors". When selected, the search shall be limited to resources which are currently open in an editor. The use case for this request is productivity enhancement. For example, consider a developer trying to investigate an issue. And as part of this, the developer open various java files while following the code trail. Or say open all the files from a changelist. Now, one knows the code of interest is in one of these open files but there is no easy way to quickly search through them. An 'Open Editor' search scope will be of much use to this developer. For the sake of reference, similar functionality can be found in Notepad++ as 'Find All in All Opened Documents'
May be if we can provide additional scopes though an extension point. Also, while you are at it we may want to update the help screenshot at Workbench User Guide > Reference > User interface information > Search
