Allow finding in files selected in SCM

[alexdima]

• Have a symbol, say a which is used in 200 files
• Have a symbol, say b which is used in a subset of those 200 files, like in 50 files
• Suppose all usages of a where b is used need to be migrated: a -> a2 and b -> b2
• Do a replace in files to replace b with b2
• At this time, the SCM viewlet contains exactly the 50 files where a needs to be migrated to a2
• It is not possible to operate on those 50 files because all instances of a will be found (200 files)
• It would be nice if I could right click on the changed files in the SCM viewlet and use that to define the search context.

[andreamah]

I've been tracking ideas for "search in specific files/ranges` in this issue #20530. Please leave a comment there for this. Once we have better infrastructure for this type of search, I can start implementing these types of ideas (potentially as part of an API).

/duplicate #20530

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