Bug 440507

Summary:

[find/replace] Add (?x) and (?U) flags to the tooltips for regular expressions

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Lukas Eder <lukas.eder>

Component:

Text

Assignee:

Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>

Status:

ASSIGNED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, martin.karpisek

Version:

4.4

Keywords:

helpwanted

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

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01 Regex flags explanation in search tooltip	none

Description Lukas Eder

2014-07-28 02:50:49 EDT

Created attachment 245421 [details]
01 Regex flags explanation in search tooltip

This is probably used quite scarcely, but I find the tool tip in Eclipse very useful to remind me of what the various ismd flags really mean.

Support for the COMMENTS (?x:...) flag has been around for ages:

- http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#COMMENTS

... and in Java 7, support for the UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS (?U:...) was added

- http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS

It would be great if these flags were also documented / supported from the Eclipse search feature. Probably, a version-check would need to be done to see if Eclipes is running on Java 7 for UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2014-07-28 03:12:07 EDT

High quality patch would be welcome.

Entry point for fix:
org.eclipse.jface.text.FindReplaceDocumentAdapterContentProposalProvider