I was looking for a feature request to add Text Search for a given pane of a given file of a given commit to start with. Pressing Ctrl+F inside the diff view focuses the File Filter every time!

Without this, we cannot hope to get multi-file search... But from the way your suggestion is written, it sounds like single file search already exists, and this would be an improvement over that. In that case, can you tell me how you search text in a single file diff?

I searched for a similar request on the forum, but could only find yours. If you know about another request specifically for single file search, I'll also check it.

Otherwise, I may open another ticket for single fill text search. It is simpler and may encourage the developers to tackle this first, before they go on with multi-file search.

In the meantime I'll vote your suggestion up since ultimately it's also something I'd want.

According to https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/877-log-files-view-allow-to-invoke-commands-on-subdirectories-sg-12394, this is possible in SmartGit 19.1 preview. I haven't tried it yet.