This is an idea that was mentioned in #1278 and could be part of the #1839 meta-issue...
So the idea is basically to have an additional "Place in layout" action available in the drop-button in the "Operations" column (mockup):

...this would pop up a dialog asking which layout to add the block to, and upon selecting a layout, would redirect to the "Manage blocks" page for the selected layout, perhaps with a "Select region" prompt?
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Worth mentioning as it was in zulip chat by @yorkshirepudding I just tested and the two work together without issue as long as you don't use the "Exclude comments from Content...
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There is also Node Comments Search - this searches the node and all comments (default search is node and first page of comments) as part of the content search. Izzy's module above is a separate...
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I have created a new module comment_search
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