Bug 4258

Summary:	DCR: Global text Search/Replace (1GKMA73)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Erich Gamma <erich_gamma>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4	CC:	dlwhiteman, mreterstorf
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Carolyn MacLeod

2001-10-10 23:08:42 EDT

This feature would be quite useful.

NOTES:
EG (26.09.2001 11:50:51)
	Lower prio, since refactoring is a better way
	to make global changes.

CM (10/2/2001 3:40:55 PM)
	Doesn't help when I have to make a bunch of comment changes <g>.

Comment 1 Martin Aeschlimann

2001-10-16 11:15:27 EDT

moved to 'active'

Comment 2 Erich Gamma

2001-11-11 15:41:35 EST

refactoring now also allows to update the names in comments when doing renames -
defer

Comment 3 Carolyn MacLeod

2001-11-11 23:30:23 EST

This request cannot really be solved by refactoring.
Say I have to update all of the copyright notices in my project,
or change a particular string to something else in all javadoc comments.

Comment 4 Jared Burns

2002-05-01 15:38:42 EDT

I've had to do this sort of thing (update all the copyrights in a few packages)
and it is really painful without this feature.

Comment 5 rolarenfan

2002-05-02 22:24:08 EDT

Yep, I agree this would be very useful (and is present in many far simpler 
IDE-like things)

Comment 6 David Whiteman

2002-05-03 11:13:08 EDT

I agree - quite useful.  Currently I can only do this via a third party tool 
such as BkReplaceEm

Comment 7 Erich Gamma

2002-05-14 10:19:50 EDT

reconsidering for 2.0

Comment 8 Erich Gamma

2002-05-14 10:20:16 EDT

fixed in 20020514