[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: How to avoid search hits in JAR files?

["Antranig Basman" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:10:03 +0100, Eric Rizzo <eclipse5@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Antranig Basman wrote:
> >  A framework I am developing deploys JARs which end up in dozens of  
> > projects in my workspace,
> > and hence any searches I make have copious duplicate hits, for each  
> > copy of the JARs. How
> > can I filter searches to exclude these? None of the supplied filter  
> > options seem slightly
> > relevant, which all relate to the *code context* of the hit, rather  
> > than its packaging.
>
> You can define a Working Set (or Working Sets) that only includes the  
> source that you want to search, then limit the scope of the search to  
> the Working Set(s).
>
> Hope this helps,
> 	Eric

Cheers Eric -
Yes, I had considered working sets. The issue is, these JARs are
dependencies of projects that I *do* want searched, that is, I would
like the code directly within the projects to be marked as a
search target, but would like to exclude JARs within the same
project (really, a setting to exclude JARs from search across the entire
workspace would be ideal). Unless I use any option other than "group by
project", it is now extremely difficult to sort out the hits I need amongst
the dozens of "decoys".

Antranig.