Description Dani Megert 2008-09-16 10:43:04 EDT

This bug covers the UI work for bug 199994:

Often you want to find a string in a comment or string literal which can also be in a class file (resp. its attached source).

We see two approaches:
a.) add it to file search: Extensions can provide source content to archive files and class files. File search then would use these files instead of the binary content to search
b.) add it to Java search: Add a new search option 'Text references'

I believe there are two many problems with a.): How to present matches (file search result view only shows resources), how to open a match, what if the user really wants to search the content of the binary file, how to specify a scope 
b.) has the advantage that the search scope are Java aware, the result view shows Java elements, etc.

The question is, where would b.) be implemented. It could be implemented in the UI, as we know how to visit all Java files and look at their content.
But maybe it would be better if jdt.core does it, as the search could also be useful for other clients.