element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Allow viewing a specific event in dev tools by event ID
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
I would like to inspect a specific event in a room whose event ID I have.
#### Why would you like to do it?
In order to debug all kinds of issues that happen sometimes.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
1. Without scrolling through the entire room history to try to find the event
2. Ideally, with a chat command (`/showevent`?)
3. From the devtools (next to "Send custom timeline event", there should also be "Show timeline event...")
### Have you considered any alternatives?
Sometimes, an `origin_server_ts` is available, which at least makes it possible to scroll to the correct time/date to narrow down the search area.
### Additional context
Maybe this is already possible, but it's not discoverable at all.
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