musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Advanced Searching/Filtering with Result-Highlighting in the style of VS Code
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Description
Your idea
I really love VS Code's search/replace functionailty managing and highlighting different results from a search. I would love to have a similar thing in MuseScore as well to be an extension of the Select → More feature and filters.
Highlighted objects such as notes, texts, symbols etc. should not be the same as the selection, as this would not allow the user to perform any edits without collapsing/overwriting the search results.
Problem to be solved
There is a lot of unused potential in FIlters and Select → More.
Prior art
- "filters" and "select → more"
- see the Search Results/Replace functionality in Visual Studio Code
Additional context
I would e.g. love to utilize this for finding notes that do not have lyrics yet.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing MuseScore’s existing Filters and Select → More behavior, then compare the referenced VS Code Search/Replace results model. Define the scope for advanced filtering, separate result highlighting from selection, and verify that users can still edit without collapsing results; completion should cover the stated example of finding notes without lyrics.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100