Instead of a complete new view, maybe this could be incooperated into the "Search Results"?

@laeubi also a valid option but most likely more complex as the Search view can also be filled via other means (IIRC).

the Search view can also be filled via other means

Yeah but maybe it would make sense to have a "centralized" approach then to make those option available (non blocking), e.g. what I can think of is to have a textfield for the search, then on the left i can choose the type (E.g. File Search, Git Search, Java Search...) and on the right a "configure" button that opens a flyout to show the other options of the search (like when you minimized a view). Just a rough idea... having just another view might be confusing as actually they are closely related.

Whoever decides to work on this can select the approach. :-)

What about just making it non-modal and making sure you can't open it more than once (just like the Find dialog).

I don't like the view idea at all.

What about just making it non-modal and making sure you can't open it more than once (just like the Find dialog).

That would be already an improvement, like I said: Whoever decides to work on this can select the approach. :-)

I don't like the view idea at all.

Why?

I'm also not fan of a view in order to configure things. Dialog are semantically good to capture a user request, a view is good to get a view of something. Using a view to capture user input seems awkward to me.
However, unifying search request and search result in the same view would be nice; but I'm unsure we'll manage to build something that would be as easy to manipulate. Such a unified view would basically show the complexity of search request and search results at the same time; users would feel overwhelmed.

From here, I agree with @merks that the issues listed in the initial comment don't seem to mandate a view, and would be solved by simply making the dialog non-modal.

As i change the search text much more frequent then the other options i propose to just add a small input field for that text.

Vscode search is nice, without replace:

with replace