Summary: | Request a small quick find text box that can be placed in the tool bar or menu bar | ||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Ed Burnette <ed.burnette> |
Component: | Text | Assignee: | Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | akiezun, eclipse, steen.lehmann |
Version: | 2.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Whiteboard: |
Description
Ed Burnette
2002-12-09 22:47:35 EST
This would be really useful, it sounds like the way the Firefox brower searches the current page - Ctrl+F reveals a search textbox at the bottom of the page (with Find Next / Prev buttons) where you can start typing and get immediate response on find results (the minute you type a character that can't be found the search box turns red). The current dialog box is obtrusive and cumbersome to use compared to Firefox search (or 'vi', for that matter, but let's not start a religious war). Adding Kim as she has some ideas about this am I missing something? ctrl+j does not work for you? Ooo, I didn't know about Ctrl+J, very neat. Not a well-advertised feature, I've been using Eclipse for 3+ years without discovering it. One usability advantage of the Firefox- and Visual Studio-style search though is that it shows the word currently being searched for while you continue editing the document, and also an option like "match case" is readily available in Firefox as an option button without the need for a dialog box. oh, wow. I use it like every 3-4 minutes. I typically do ctrl+j, type something, then ctrl+k and ctlr+shift+k to jump between matches. The feature's been there for years. I though everyone knew about it. This has nothing to do with JFace viewers. Assigning to Text. |