I keep opening the search editor and clicking the show context button every single time - the show context to me is one of the stronger features of the search editor.

It would be nice to be able to configure it permanently. I know reusePriorSearchConfiguration exists but that would affect all the other settings.

My proposal is to add search.searchEditor.defaultShowContextValue property (number | null) which when defined would override the default value for the number of context lines.

reusePriorSearchConfiguration would take precedence if both are used.