Thanks for the suggestion. There was a task of adding a search capability to the "SKETCHBOOK" view in the private issue tracker for Arduino IDE 2.x. I have now published it to the public issue tracker:
So I can make sure I understand the request, would you mind providing details of how you envision this working?
Would the search filter the items in the File > Examples menu?
Would the menu still use the structure of a submenu for each library, and those menus further structured according to the folder structure of the library's examples folder?
Would the search apply to these submenu names, or only to the example names specifically?
Do you think it would be sufficient if the previously opened example sketches were included in the items of the File > Open Recent menu?:
As you yourself probably do, I have lots of libraries so a lot of examples.
This can involve a lot of scrolling.
Usually when I want test examples I start at the bottom of the list "Z" and work my way up so that I have less scrolling to do on each occasion.
A nice feature to have would for example be a search for "gps" and all the GPS related examples would be listed.
That search in an ideal world would be saved just until the session was finished or maybe even into a seperate session ?
In that way I would no longer have to scroll every time through examples but be able to call up the recent search and work my way through that particular but much shorter list.
Your idea of putting it in recent is quite possibly an alternative work around but without hands on I am not 100% sure if it would work.
I may try do a video later as I think that might explain a little better.
Not really planning to watch the video.
But, how about this layout:
In the sketch book area.
There is a button for accessing cloud sketches.
Could a similar button be added for examples?
And a search bar at the top?
Maybe with a filter that allows you to search examples only, your sketch’s only, and cloud sketch’s, and all .