[news.eclipse.tools] regular expression search

["Gabrio Verratti" <gabrioverratti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One very powerful feature of a rather simple text editor that I like
(http://www.textpad.com/) is a file-system regular expression search.  This
search traverses a file system, searching for all strings matching the
regular expression.  A file-specific find/replace operation also supports
regular expressions, including operations akin to s/foo(.)/bar$1/.

Do any of you know of a plugin that would give me similar features?  Are
there any plans for adding regular expression search facilities to Eclipse?

~ Gabrio