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The result window of the find dialog offers a button "Show node in explorer". This option should be available in the editor too.
I agree it is truly missing feature. I set this bug to duplicated because it's already present under java module. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6559 ***
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.