Bug 426906

Summary:

[Dialogs] Support filename:linenumber in Open Resource to open file and go to number

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Robin Stocker <robin>

Component:

IDE

Assignee:

Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

kis36205

Version:

4.4

Keywords:

usability

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
IntelliJ IDEA "go to line number"	none

Description Robin Stocker

2014-01-29 10:38:01 EST

Created attachment 239432 [details]
IntelliJ IDEA "go to line number"

For Java files, there is a command called "Open from Clipboard", which is useful for opening e.g. Foo.java:20, which opens the file and directly jumps to line 20.

It would be useful if "Open Resource" would also support a format like that so that it could be used for all file types. It already supports "/" for matching parts of parent directories.

In case of ".+:\d+", it would list the file(s) matching the pattern left of the ":", and when a selection is opened, jump directly to the line number specified right of the ":".

On some platforms it's possible that a file name contains ":", so a literal search for that file should probably be done in addition for the results to be complete.


Note that IntelliJ IDEA supports this syntax already (see attachment): http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/navigating-to-class-file-or-symbol-by-name.html