Sorry about this but I took something literally; then it made me think ..

from the mIRC.chm file
/findtext -n <text>
This searches active window for the specified text (same as Control+F).

In fact it isn't the same. Ctrl-F pops up a dialog box that you can fill in, while /findtext has to be programmed.

My question is why bother ?
Why cant we just call the pre-existing pop-up ?

Is there any way to do this ?