1567942 - Display a message preview pane below gloda global search results [faceted search]

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[klaus]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

use global search (from edit menu item)

Actual results:

list of found emails is displayed

Expected results:

It would be nice to have a message window below it, which can display the message which is highlighted/selected in the search results.

That is normal display mode in 3 pane window for messages in the list of a folder. It would big time help to find the exact message that I am searching if there are many search results.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no duplicates found.

Comment 2

[Dr B W Darvell]

I should like to endorse this for Search via Ctrl-Shift-F (= Local Folders | Search Messages). DC gets a message to open in a new tab in the main window, but then that has to be closed and another click or Alt-Tab to get back tot he search result. A preview pane would make it all so much faster. I have to do a lot of searching ...

Comment 3

[Dr B W Darvell]

I should like to raise this again, if that is permitted, 5 years on.
With many results, to search requires DC for a new tab, read, and then close to check every one of potential interest. This is slow, to say the least. In some search engines a preview shows the first hit for the highlightted item in a small pane.
To implement this as a third (bottom) section of the Search Messages (ctrl-shift-F) window would offer an enormous advantage and make searches a lot more efficient and effective, not just 'nice' .