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Follow up ticket from: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=548518 Preferences default values are initialized in a 'ad-hoc' manner. There is an extension point for this purpose that should be used instead. See: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/145336/6/org.eclipse.text.quicksearch/src/org/eclipse/text/quicksearch/core/preferences/QuickSearchPreferences.java@86
Is this bug the reason why I cannot influence the preference defaults for Quicksearch using plugin_customization.ini in my customized Eclipse product? Here is an example of what I wanted to set in that file: org.eclipse.text.quicksearch/ignored.names=bin, build, BUILD, target (as the ignored names seem to be interpreted case-sensitively so that my BUILD folders were not ignored when using the standard list of defaults) Unfortunately this line seems to have no effect.
Kris, thanks for the link to the review where I found your comment: "[...] It works now and I have had a lot of problems getting the abstract preference intializer extension point to work properly in the past. [...] I would just not mess with it unless there was another pressing reason to be making any changes here." Can you explain which problems you faced when trying to use that extension point? I would like to understand this challenge so that I can evaluate if I could contribute here.
In the meantime I've created a QuickSearchPreferenceInitializer implementing IStartup as a workaround. It respects the user's preferences but when the default preferences are effective it sets my desired preferences instead.
> Can you explain which problems you faced when trying to use that extension point? I would like to understand this challenge so that I can evaluate if I could contribute here. Sorry for the late reply. But I don't have much useful to say anyway as this is something I worked on years ago. I just have vague recollections of trying to use it but never quite understand how exactly to use it so it actually sets proper defaults and never getting that to work properly.
Thanks, Kris, for sharing what you remember. And thanks for your investment in Quick Search in general. I like it.
