Bug 56899

Summary: [EditorMgmt] Support common prefix completion in Switch to Editor dialog (CTRL+E)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Erich Gamma <erich_gamma>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Erich Gamma CLA 2004-03-31 07:52:08 EST 
JDT is now supporting common prefix completion in code assist. This feature 
shouid be supported in the CTRL+E dialog as well (Open Type would be another 
candidated)

Here is an example. 
1) Open two files with a long common prefix for example WizardExportPage and 
WizardResourceExportPage.
2) you want to switch to WizardResourceExportPage
3) press CTRL+E switch to one of them
->Given the long common prefix you cannot easily select the desired file.
One solution is to use meta characters like "W*R" (to select the 2nd file).

Common prefix completion would make this simpler and allow me to enter
 'W'+CTRL-SPACE to get the common prefix completed.
Comment 1 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2006-04-21 13:19:31 EDT 
Moving Dougs bugs
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-09 19:04:11 EDT 
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
Comment 3 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-17 13:01:14 EST 
Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:09:13 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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