The search part would better fit under Help/Preferences/Toolbar. A screenshot would be nice.

JOSM Main Toolbar

Some of the important default buttons:

• Open
• Save
• Download from OSM ...
• Upload data
• Undo
• Redo
• Search for objects
• Preferences

Context menu

A right click on the main toolbar offers a context menu with following items:

• Remove from toolbar - removes the button from the toolbar (only available if clicked on a button)
• Configure toolbar - to open toolbar preferences for customization
• Edit shortcut - to open keyboard shortcuts preferences (only available if clicked on a button)
• A check box Do not hide toolbar and menu - If checked, the keystroke TAB will not toggle the main toolbar and main menu.

Customization

All items from the main menu elements including "preset groups" or any "button" from JOSM can be added and removed.
Default buttons may contain popular items, but for one's benefit customize them once, see toolbar customization.

Saved search button

The search button is a special button. It is customizable so you can set the tooltip, the icon and the search expression yourself. Each time you press the button, the specified search expression will be executed. Examples:

• If you set amenity=bench as search expression all objects with the tag amenity=bench will be selected.
• If you set -selected as search expression, the selection will invert each time you press the button.
• More examples see search

You can create such a button also from within the search dialog.

See also

• Edit toolbar

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