Allow to search for all occurences of a string from regexp in current editor

Allow to search for all occurences from regexp in current editor

The COBOL editor includes several possibilities to search for text. There is, for example, the Edit>Search/Replace... which provides a way to jump from one occurence of the searched string to another one in the file. The Edit>Search/Replace ... allows to type a regular expression as search pattern.

There is also the Search>Text>File which will list all the occurrences of the searched string in the search result view, but doesn't support regular expressions.

There is also the Search>File... which is not dedicated to search in an opened COBOL editor.

Also note that the Search>Text>File action only works if some text has been first selected in the editor. So, to search for a given piece of text, you need first to have found a first occurence of it in the file. Then, the Search>Text>File allows you to search for all occurrences. Another way to proceed is to write down a piece of text directly in the editor, select it, search for all occurrences with Search>Text>File and then remove the inserted text that was used only to start the search. This is not very practical.

All these search tools are complemetary, but two functionalities are missing :
1) The user can't search for all occurrences of a string in the current COBOL editor and get the results in the search result view without having first make a selection in the editor, which is not practical
2) The user can't search for a regular expression in the current COBOL editor and get all the occurences in the search result view.

A way to fill this gap could be to add a new behavior to the Search>Text>File action : if no text is selected in the editor, rather than sending an error message, the tool could open a dialog box where the user could enter a search string or a regular expression.

This way, the user could easily search for any text string or regular expression in the current editor, and get all the results in the search results view. That said, any other implementation that could provide the same possibility to the user is welcome.