Bug 16426

Summary:	[search] Search for text in comments / string literals separately
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Jon Skeet <skeet>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	julian.ruppel, lukas.eder, markus.kell.r, remy.suen
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Jon Skeet

2002-05-20 09:51:40 EDT

Currently the only way to search for parts of comments and string literals is to
use the full text search. It would be great to be able to search just string
literals, or search just comments.

Comment 1 Erich Gamma

2002-05-20 19:25:42 EDT

Text search is currently defined at platform level and doesn't know about Java.
Cannot address for 2.0

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2002-08-19 10:23:35 EDT

There could be other/new Java "Search for" types:
- String literal
- Comment
- Javadoc comment

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2002-08-19 10:24:02 EDT

Moving to J Core for comment about such a Search enginge extension

Comment 4 Philipe Mulet

2002-10-28 10:58:45 EST

Not for 2.1 either.

Comment 5 Frederic Fusier

2007-06-21 12:19:25 EDT

Reopen as LATER is deprecated...

Comment 6 Frederic Fusier

2007-06-21 12:19:56 EDT

May be addressed while fixing bug 155013...

Comment 7 Frederic Fusier

2007-08-14 05:04:52 EDT

After having worked on prototype for bug 155013, I realized that fine grain search only concern reference to java element, neither for string literal nor for text in comments...

So, put back to low priority (similar as LATER)...

Comment 8 Dani Megert

2011-02-15 02:36:46 EST

*** Bug 337173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Markus Keller

2011-02-15 06:53:24 EST

See also bug 337200.

Comment 10 Noopur Gupta

2016-01-07 10:00:48 EST

*** Bug 485053 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Julian Ruppel

2021-10-13 14:52:16 EDT

It is hard to believe that this bug is reported in 2002, nevertheless, it is probably even more relevant now than it was back then...

Especially finding references of java classes, methods, constructors etc. in String literals is a frequent use case when you deal with e.g. JPA JPQL or Spring Caching annotations. There are probably more valid examples in other frameworks.

IntelliJ offers similar things https://stackoverflow.com/a/28720224/1239904