Bug 568884

Summary:	Improve Find/ Replace to allow continuous search
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	chenhuixu1999, Lars.Vogel
Version:	4.17	Keywords:	helpwanted, usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Lars Vogel

2020-11-17 05:44:12 EST

Last week one of my customers pointed out how bad the Eclipse Find / Replace dialog is compared to tools like VSCode.

In VSCode you can circle throw the search results, so if you reach the end of the text file and search forward it starts again from the beginning. 

In Eclipse you have to move the cursor or search backwards (listing again all the previous results) to find matches above the current cursor position.

I also think that is a bad UX design and we should also restart our search if we reach the end.