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This is a request to rip-off a nice feature for finding text in Visual Studio. In VS if I'm in a text window (editor, search results, etc.) and I hit control- D my cursor jumps up to a little text box in the tool bar (the location is configurable) that accepts a search string. I type the string and hit return and the text window scrolls to the next occurrence of that string. Although the cursor appears in the window, the find text box still has focus so if I hit return again it jumps to the second occurrence and so on. If I hit shift- return it jumps to the previous occurrence. This quick find feature uses the last settings of the full blown find (^F) or find-replace (^H) window (for example case sensitivity, wrapping, etc.). Finding text is such a common operation that having this optional small, unobtrusive way to do quick finds is very convenient in VS. I find other systems that pop up a separate window for find (such as Eclipse and Textpad) a little harder to use.
This would be really useful, it sounds like the way the Firefox brower searches the current page - Ctrl+F reveals a search textbox at the bottom of the page (with Find Next / Prev buttons) where you can start typing and get immediate response on find results (the minute you type a character that can't be found the search box turns red). The current dialog box is obtrusive and cumbersome to use compared to Firefox search (or 'vi', for that matter, but let's not start a religious war).
Adding Kim as she has some ideas about this
am I missing something? ctrl+j does not work for you?
Ooo, I didn't know about Ctrl+J, very neat. Not a well-advertised feature, I've been using Eclipse for 3+ years without discovering it. One usability advantage of the Firefox- and Visual Studio-style search though is that it shows the word currently being searched for while you continue editing the document, and also an option like "match case" is readily available in Firefox as an option button without the need for a dialog box.
oh, wow. I use it like every 3-4 minutes. I typically do ctrl+j, type something, then ctrl+k and ctlr+shift+k to jump between matches. The feature's been there for years. I though everyone knew about it.
This has nothing to do with JFace viewers. Assigning to Text.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99294 ***
