Bug 512463

Summary:	Provide content assist for regex Search/Find
Product:	[ECD] Orion (Archived)	Reporter:	Carolyn MacLeod <Carolyn_MacLeod>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	XinYi Jiang <xinyij>
Status:	REOPENED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	kuschel, Michael_Rennie, steve_northover
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	accessibility, triaged, usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	445818
Bug Blocks:

Description Carolyn MacLeod

2017-02-20 16:32:51 EST

Search and Find both have a "Regular expression" checkbox in their UI.
Users who check the box (and don't use regex daily) have to go look up the regex syntax because the UI doesn't help them at all.

Please add content assist to the "Type a search term" and "Find with" inputs. Also, when the regex checkbox is checked, the placeholder text should change to "Type a search term (Ctrl+Space for regex assist)" and "Find with (Ctrl+Space for regex assist)", respectively.

Note that the Eclipse Find/Search dialogs have content assist for regular expressions.

See also: Bug 445818 - [assist] Provide content assist for regex patterns
which is asking for this capability in the editor.

Comment 1 Steve Northover

2017-03-29 16:55:33 EDT

We are unlikely to get to this any time soon.

Comment 2 Michael Rennie

2017-06-12 11:03:19 EDT

Whatever solution we do come up with, it should be usable between the JS tools and the UI.

Perhaps even something "industrial strength" like a regex plugin, that supported content assist, hover, and evaluation of regex's - where evaluation could be used to run / debug expressions.

Comment 3 Michael Rennie

2018-04-09 09:40:01 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. 

For more details see: https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg04114.html

Comment 4 Carolyn MacLeod

2018-05-14 13:15:27 EDT

Reopened.