Search and Focus in LyX

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan]

I notice that, when I search for text in LyX, focus simply remains 
with the search/replace dialogue.  Ideally, the user should be able to 
search for a substring, the cursor should be relocated to the next 
occurrence of that substring, and the user should be able to begin 
typing without first acting to give focus to the pane containing the 
text.

When the user is making something global replacements or something 
that otherwise best calls for the replacement feature, this issue is 
of no significance. When the user is just making one change, this 
issue is of nearly no significance.  But when the user is tweaking a 
large number different occurrences in different ways, having to change 
focus can become significant.

One of the cases in which I have met with this issue is in editting 
documents to take better advantage of some of the recent enhancements 
of LyX.