Hi, maybe I just haven't found a way to do this. But I think it would be really helpful to launch the footprint editor wherever there is a footprint text box, or from the pcb layout view.
The way I do it now is to search for the name of a footprint... I must be missing something!
Chrome
72.0.3626.121
OS X
10_13_3
EasyEDA
5.9.42