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Originally posted by kinook
What do you mean by 'clicking QuickSearch'? If you use the Search button on the View toolbar, it will focus the Search for field in the detail pane. If you have a Favorite for a search item and click that, it will not (instead it will either stay at the currently focused pane or focus the tree pane containing the item, depending on Tools | Options | Trees | Set focus to active selection pane when going to an item). Ctrl+2 is the default shortcut to explicitly focus the detail pane.
It was a design decision to focus the results pane in that case (so that it will unhide and remain visible) to prevent confusion about where the search results are after a search starts. You could set 'Tools | Options | Search/Reminders | Incremental search delay when typing' to 0 so that the search results won't be displayed while typing a search phrase (and press Enter to initiate the search).
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I was using the QuickSearch node in the Search pane which doesn't focus but the toolbar icon does so I'll click that instead.
Unhiding and remaining visible is one thing but why give it focus?
If I press Ctrl-Shift-F to start a search, I would like to be able to start typing search text straight away. I can't do that if the Search Results pane happens to be auto-hidden but can if it isnt.
Looking more closely, if the Search Results pane is closed then the behaviour is to open and pin it. This may be a better solution than changing the focus to it to unhide it as the behaviour would be more consistent - ie focus always where expected.