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On macOS, the Help menu should include a "Search" entry #2897

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@tempelmann

Describe the request

Modern macOS apps always have a Search command at the top of their Help menu. The search used to be for searching an optionally included help bundle, but nowadays it ALSO is used to show any matching menu commands.

Describe the current behavior

Currently, the Search command is missing from the Help menu on macOS.

By simply including it, without adding any code, macOS already adds the basic functionality, which is the search in the menus.

A user can then quickly find commands hidden somewhere in the menu bar tree.

Here's an example from Finder.app were I entered "move" into the search field:

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2.3.8

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macOS

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