Bug 566109 - add support for searching keybinding by the shortcut
Summary: add support for searching keybinding by the shortcut
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.17   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2020-08-16 13:05 EDT by Gayan Perera CLA
Modified: 2020-08-17 13:55 EDT (History)
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Description Gayan Perera CLA 2020-08-16 13:05:14 EDT 
Today in eclipse if you want to find a keybinding by the shortcut you need to type in the shortcut like SHIFT+8. This is find on linux and windows. But in mac the meta keys are symbols instead of names. It would be great if the search text field can use to search by shortcuts by typing in the shortcut in the search text. There is a similar feature in IntelliJ with the different search option, but in eclipse we can do better.
Comment 1 Rolf Theunissen CLA 2020-08-17 12:07:08 EDT 
I assume that you mean the searching for keybindings in the preferences, Windows > Preferences > General > Keys.

Note that the textbox to enter the bindings already supports this feature. So this should be relatively straight forward to be added.
Comment 2 Rolf Theunissen CLA 2020-08-17 13:55:13 EDT 
I had a quick look, but I can understand why IntelliJ has different search options. The filter tree can be used to do free text search on all the columns. 
Mixing key sequence search with free text search is a bit tricky, for instance how to do copy/paste.
How do you think that Eclipse can do better?