advice2020 created an issue (geany/geany#4570)

Geany offers
`Find` dialog when you hit CTRL+F
and
`Replace` dialog when you hit CTRL+H

Both of these are floating window dialogs.

At times, floating windows can really get in the way, usually being on top of 
found items in the typing pane so they cannot be seen, constantly requiring 
this dialog to be moved out of the way.

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Suggesting to add two separate settings, one for each, that would allow these 
tools to be docked as a section inside of the `Messages Window` with the other 
sections.

Could make even more sense because Geany already can send the search results 
into the `Messages` section of the `Messages Window`.  

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If this does get added, could use similar settings to the ones I mentioned in 
the 
`Preferences` - `Various` section
That start with the prefix
`interface.msgwin_`

Could make 2 separate settings to show/hide
`Find` section
`Replace` section
in the `Messages Window`

If these items get a "check" = "make them visible"
This would override them being used as a dialog, and make them visible in the 
`Messages Window` pane.

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KEYBINDINGS
Keybindings (which by default CTRL+F / CTRL+H) would perform the same as they 
do for these two dialog boxes, but would just open the `Message Window` to show 
the `Find` / `Replace` section instead of dialogs.
Also when these `Message Window` is opened, these hotkeys would also bring 
focus in `Find` / `Replace` section, as they currently do with these two 
dialogs.

Thank you to anyone who reads this

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