Bug 306344

Summary:	[find/replace] Matched regex groups should be visible (e.g. color highlight)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Neale Upstone <neale>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, remy.suen
Version:	3.5.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Neale Upstone

2010-03-18 07:09:29 EDT

The following would make writing regex group search replace operations much slicker...


If I open the search/replace dialog box and do a regex search, e.g. for

  /country/([a-z]+)/code/([0-9]+)/

On:

  http://server/app/country/usa/code/90210/blahblahblah

When I press "Find", the UI highlights:

  http://server/app[/country/usa/code/90210/]blahblahblah

   where [   ] indicates the highlighted area

What I would like is for usa and 90210 to be fed back as the group match parts.

In the editor, this would be done using a different colour:

  http://server/app[/country/{usa}/code/{90210}/]blahblahblah

   here {  } indicates a new highlight colour for a regexp group match

This is probably a relatively quick job.

A slightly harder (I suspect) addition would be that in the Replace field of the Find/Replace dialog box, the quick assist for 
$1 and $2 could show the currently matched text.

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:12:47 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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