Somehow in my IDE 2.3.4 the Search function/icon in the left bar has dissappeared and been replaced by DEBUG. How do I revert this back to just Search ?
TIA
Are you sure that you did not just move it to a different position in the left pane ?
Well, it doesn't look like you have moved it
Sorry I don't understand your comment.
Are you suggesting I can search using DEBUG?
Still wondering where my gloabl search/magnifier symbol has gone?
Do I have to reinstall the IDE?
tks
No. I wondered whether you had accidentally moved Search to a different vertical position in the list of icons in the left pane and not noticed it.
If you click one of the icons then a coloured scroll handle will appear to its left. Click and hold on on the handle and you can change the vertical position of the selected icon.
OK, now I suspect I've accidentally dragged it outside of the IDE window altogether 
Hi @ninja2. Try this:
- Press the Ctrl+Shift+P keyboard shortcut (Command+Shift+P for macOS users) to open the "Command Palette".
A menu will appear on the editor toolbar:
- Select the "Toggle Search View" command from the menu.
ⓘ You can scroll down through the list of commands to find it, or type the command name in the field.
Hopefully this will cause the magnifying glass of the "Search" view to be added back to the "activity bar" on the left side of the Arduino IDE window.
Hi ptillisch,
I was about to try your suggested solution, but by coincidence I removed the sketch I've been working on (so the IDE opened and no previous sketch opened) . Then when I opened a different sketch in my sketchbook the magnifying glass had magically returned !!
Is it possible the setting is held within a sketch ?
PS: meanwhile I've added CTRL-SHIFT-P to my repertoire 
That's quite a list, can you point me to a description of that control?
Yes, the "workbench configuration" is stored on a per-sketch basis. When you open a sketch, Arduino IDE will configure the user interface according to how you had it the last time that sketch was open. When you create a new sketch, the user interface is configured according to how it was in the parent window.
There is a description here:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface#_command-palette
That is from the documentation of the VS Code application, but the framework Arduino IDE is built on is based on the VS Code design, so the VS Code documentation is also applicable to Arduino IDE in this case.
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Thank you sir, excellent info as usual 
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