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Globally refocus after search
We currently can locally refocus back to the index before panel search in the left and right column.
A more useful feature would be to focus back to where it was before search if it was not in the stream/topic/user list.
Eg: If we are in the message view and press q, escaping should bring us back to that message.
Rereading, the concept appears to be that
- currently going in/out of search in the side panels saves the previous position, eg. see #978
- (this was also updated for topic position per stream subsequently)
- upon noticing a search keypress we could also save the previous state, such as if in the central message list (or elsewhere)
- backing out of a search (typically esc) would then restore that state
If we went with this, this could interact with displaying what Esc does, via eg. https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal/pull/1060#issuecomment-1925557444
Discussion was at: https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/stream/206-zulip-terminal/topic/Globally.20refocus.20after.20search.20.23T1049
To explore the issue, please read that and continue discussion there.
