Bug 217406

Summary:	[search] Fine grain search integration in editor
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Philipe Mulet <philippe_mulet>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, martinae
Version:	3.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Philipe Mulet

2008-02-01 03:51:15 EST

3.4M4

What are the plans for allowing contextual fine-grain search  in editor ? Like if I select a cast type, then you could offer to find references as cast type to this type in context menu ?

(Either find all refs as today, or provide an extra entry for finding similar references - if you were super nice, then you could even tell me that it is a cast type in menu ? but not mandatory)

Comment 1 Philipe Mulet

2008-02-01 03:53:21 EST

Martin's comment:

I believe that the 'fine grained' search is more of an advanced search. A search for all references to a type is more common that the operation to search for a cast.
So I don't plan to change the behavior of the reference search short cut. As there are some many fine grain search options, an all can be used in combination, I also don't plan to add more context menu entries. We can think of providing some very useful ones. But at the moment I don't see which ones that would be. Note that there's also a pressure to keep the context menus compact.
What I think will be a big improvement if the references in the search result can be grouped or filtered my match location. That will be possible with new API from https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=211748

Comment 2 Philipe Mulet

2008-02-01 03:54:55 EST

I was more on the line of looking at the selection (using DOM underneath) or better codeselect information (like a cast type got selected), and offering a 'search similar references' which would be fairly generic (the specifics come from the selection).

Comment 3 Philipe Mulet

2008-02-01 03:55:23 EST

Also, I like the grouping end results, I am just concerned by performance. If you tell upfront you only care about cast, then this may significantly reduce the time it takes to find references.

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2008-02-01 03:56:34 EST

You already filed this as bug 213342. Marking bug 213342 as dup of this one which contains more details.

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2008-02-01 03:56:55 EST

*** Bug 213342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Dani Megert

2008-02-01 04:01:15 EST

>I believe that the 'fine grained' search is more of an advanced search.
I agree. Since this feature is in I really only used it once. How many time did you use it so far?

We can't wait for the AST when opening the context menu.

>better codeselect information (like a cast type got selected)
You mean JDT Core provides more info on codeSelect?