Did you know that the Project Explorer supports incremental search.  Just type 
quickly the first few letters of the filename to find the file.  Then 
double-click to open it.

In the forthcoming version, I have changed incremental help so that it matches 
any part of the filename in a case insensitive manner. 

Thank you for the reply. I knew that you could type something on the project 
explorer and that the focus would move to the corresponding file. What I did 
not know is that it takes into account more than the first letter in the 
filename. I thought it just took you to the first file whose name began with 
the letter that you typed.

In my opinion this is not quite as useful as PyCharm's or Eclipse's open 
resource dialog for many reasons:

1. There is no keyboard shortcut to start the search. That means that you must 
first select the Project Explorer, and then start typing.

2. You don't see what you typed, and you cannot correct it.

3. You don't see all the matches at once. The focus is simply moved to the 
first item matching what you typed. If you have plenty of files with similar 
names in different folders this does not help you at all

4. It is hard to tell what you are looking for. PyScripter seems to reset the 
search string after a little while, so if you wait a little too long the search 
begins again.

5. It does not let you use glob patterns.

6. This does not let you select the line or function that you want to open.

In addition, I personally have the Outline view and the Project Explorer docked 
on top of each other. I generally like to keep the Outline view active most of 
the time. Following your suggestion means that I must first select the Project 
Explorer tab, type, open the file and then select the Outline view again. All 
these are mouse based operations, which IMHO break the flow considerably.

So I'd like to kindly ask you to consider reopening this issue.

If you don't want to create an actual dialog for this feature, I think that 
there are a few things that you can do to improve the way things currently work:

1. Add a "filter editbox" to the Project Explorer, where you can type the 
filename that you are looking for. The filter could be hidden by default, 
although it could be always shown as well.

2. Add a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl-t) that will activate the project 
explorer panel and show and/or give the focus to the filter box.

3. Whenever something is typed on the Project Explorer filterbox, hide any 
files that do not match the filter contents

4. Add glob support to the filterbox.

5. Add support for selecting the line or function that you want to go to.

6. After hitting ENTER, restore the state of the project explorer. That is, if 
the Project Explorer was not on top or if it was hidden before typing the 
filename search keyboard shortcut, e.g. Ctrl-t, hide it again or return it to 
its original state.

I hope that you can consider at least some of these. As I said, this is the 
main feature that I miss in PyScripter after having used PyCharm for a while. 
It makes working with big projects much easier. It is particularly useful when 
you are exploring someone else's code.

OK, I will keep the issue open.  

Thank you. I really appreciate it!

I'm sure this will be a great improvement to PyScripter :-)

Yes, just spent a bit of time searching for this ability and was saddened to 
see it is not incorporated. Any updates on this feature addition?