Bug 316911 - [QuickAccess] Quick Access dialog should support wildcards
Summary: [QuickAccess] Quick Access dialog should support wildcards
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2010-06-15 10:26 EDT by Markus Keller CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:04 EDT (History)
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Description Markus Keller CLA 2010-06-15 10:26:18 EDT 
I20100608-0911
The Quick Access dialog should support wildcards, or at least multiple words. If I e.g. want to open a particular view or invoke a quick assist command, I currently have to type too much.

StringMatcher would do the job nicely, but you could also tokenize the input string and show results that match all of the whitespace-separated tokens (e.g. "qui extrac" would match "Quick Assist - Extract local variable".
Comment 1 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-06-15 11:52:00 EDT 
You don't have to type the whole words QAELV works for me for "Quick Assist - Extract local variable".
Comment 2 Markus Keller CLA 2010-06-16 07:04:28 EDT 
I knew there was some other matching method, but I didn't remember it, and I found nothing in the help. At least, the matching of initial characters should be mentioned there.
Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:04:03 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.

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