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In the editor Find/Replace dialog (not the File Search dialog), it would be useful if an option were added to skip searching comment text. While a piece of text being a comment is not a feature of the text itself - the Eclipse IDE editor supports syntax highlighting, which IIUC that it some black-box is telling it to mark some text as comment. On that level, I believe such a feature should be implementable without the need for deep semantic analysis. This would allow circumventing the language-agnosticism of the platform, brought up as an objection on this related issue: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16426#c1 This would be very useful for two reasons: 1. In comment text, one often refers to the actual code using language reserved-words ("this function does X", "this class is Y"); also, one often uses them as pronouns and connectives: "this", "and", "or" etc. 2. When you have a bunch of code commented out, and you're only interested in finding a word which actually affects program behavior.
