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Data Explorer: Search across all columns for keywords

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Discussed in https://github.com/posit-dev/positron-beta/discussions/203

Originally posted by mikemahoney218 May 29, 2024
We've got a number of workflows that involve telling users to open a data frame in RStudio's View()er and searching for keywords in the data frame:
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I don't see an obvious way to do this in Positron. Is there one?

Also requested by another beta user: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron-beta/discussions/203#discussioncomment-9596158

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