Prevent clearing current search when switching between tabs

[jmanuel1]

Hi! Thank you for this very useful plugin. I have a suggestion stemming from the way I often use multiple tabs, in which I have a note open to synthesize information from several other notes. I find those other notes using search, and I typically don't open new tabs for all of those notes at once. The issue is that when I click on a different tab to switch to it, my current search is cleared. Is there a way to prevent that from happening?

I also tried using the back button, which has the same issue sometimes. But I don't actually use the forward/back buttons; I just wanted to see if they would also clear out my search term.

[jmanuel1]

I think this is due to the way Joplin's search bar works. It clears the search as soon as the parent type of the window's active note is not 'Search'. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/05c3065c7248c82a3d4ee0eb741a77bd2b4d2b9a/packages/app-desktop/gui/SearchBar/SearchBar.tsx#L145

It looks like this could be avoided if we could trigger a NOTE_SELECT in Joplin's redux context, but I don't know how that would be done from a plugin. But NOTE_SELECT is what the notes list uses, and it doesn't clear the search when you click on a note. The openNote command uses FOLDER_AND_NOTE_SELECT, which leads to the parent type being set.