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I request a button somewhere prominent in the Run Dialog that will take you to the main() method for that run configuration. I recently ran a user study where seven developers did four programming tasks. I was surprised at how hard it was for some of them to find main(). They all found it eventually, but sometimes it took a little while. Part of the problem was that Java Search is error prone (see bug#221081), but on some of the tasks the code base had multiple main()s (for testing purposes) and it took them a while to figure out which one was the right one. Sometimes the subject would go to the run Dialog, stare at the class name (memorizing it), and then go search for the class. I think that the staring phase was a memorization phase. Since the Run Dialog knows what class it is using for main(), seems like it might be worthwhile to have the Run Dialog have a way to take you there directly. This is NOT a high priority item. As I said, people found main eventually. It seems like a low effort/low reward enhancement, but I wanted to record the idea for posterity.
