Bug 292884 - [EditorMgmt] Quick Switch Editor can not by default search on substring
Summary: [EditorMgmt] Quick Switch Editor can not by default search on substring
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2009-10-21 08:54 EDT by Daniel Svensson CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:19 EDT (History)
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Description Daniel Svensson CLA 2009-10-21 08:54:08 EDT
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090820 Iceweasel/3.5.3 (Debian-3.5.3-1)
Build Identifier: I20090917-0100

To search for substrings you need to start with the '*' character which is, at least on my keyboard, a two key combination which makes it uncomfortable to type. It would be very nice if I could configure Eclipse to always search on substrings, sorted by the start-position of the substring.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open file Monkey.java, Ninja.java, Wehey.java
2. C-x b and type ey
3. Nothing is matched.. but the list should be Wehey.java followed by Monkey.java as 'ey' in Monkey.java has a later start-position.
Comment 1 Daniel Svensson CLA 2009-10-21 09:14:48 EDT
Hmm.. missing details in the description. In Emacs I can match buffers based on multiple substrings, so if I have these buffers open:

TestModel.java
TestNinja.java
ModelWorld.java


I could write:
m to match TestModel.java and ModelWorld.java
mor to match ModelWorld.java
esta to match TestNinja.java

This way similar files are easily accessible because you know the fragments of the names.

More details:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings#toc1
Comment 2 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-17 13:04:27 EST
Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:19:05 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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.