Bug 568884 - Improve Find/ Replace to allow continuous search
Summary: Improve Find/ Replace to allow continuous search
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 4.17   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted, usability
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Reported: 2020-11-17 05:44 EST by Lars Vogel CLA
Modified: 2020-11-17 05:47 EST (History)
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Description Lars Vogel CLA 2020-11-17 05:44:12 EST 
Last week one of my customers pointed out how bad the Eclipse Find / Replace dialog is compared to tools like VSCode.

In VSCode you can circle throw the search results, so if you reach the end of the text file and search forward it starts again from the beginning. 

In Eclipse you have to move the cursor or search backwards (listing again all the previous results) to find matches above the current cursor position.

I also think that is a bad UX design and we should also restart our search if we reach the end.