Bug 114075 - [search] Find references should also look in text files
Summary: [search] Find references should also look in text files
Status: ASSIGNED
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Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: JDT-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2005-10-28 05:06 EDT by Sven Bauer CLA
Modified: 2009-01-23 11:34 EST (History)
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Description Sven Bauer CLA 2005-10-28 05:06:16 EDT 
Currently the "Find References"-Feature right-click "References..." searches
only in Java-files. However, usually much of the code resides in text files
(XML, .properties, Velocity-templates, etc.). When searching for References to a
Java class or method I would find it extremely useful if this search would also
look in text files. Starting two searches each time (one using the
right-click-"References..." and one doing a "File Search") seems unnecessarily
cumbersome. 
This should work similar to refactoring where I can select if I wish to search
in text file or only in java files.
Comment 1 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2005-10-28 05:55:25 EDT 
Java search provides a participant architecture allowing others to report
matches as well (for example M3 will show matches in plugin.xml files).

However a "basic" textual search like refactoring does would of course be
helpful as well.