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Problem about plugin supports search feature In eclipse [message #1816743]

Wed, 06 November 2019 08:26

david taylor

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Registered: November 2019

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Hello friends.
I have a question to ask you guys.
I am very comfortable and happy with eclipse, but I see my colleagues using intellij, and I really would like to have that same project-search functionality in eclipse.

I'm referring to the ctrl+shift+f window (Find in Path window).

At very least, I'd like to be able to open search results in a new window, but would like to have a preview in a new window that I can easily compare code with.

Is there a plugin to add this kind of functionality in eclipse? Thank you.
Thank's a lot!

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Re: Problem about plugin supports search feature In eclipse [message #1816755 is a reply to message #1816743]

Wed, 06 November 2019 11:20

Stephan Herrmann

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Registered: July 2009

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I don't think I fully understand what exactly you see missing.

Quote:

open search results in a new window

In Eclipse the search results view, is a regular view that can be moved to a new window as you like.

Quote:

a preview in a new window that I can easily compare code with

Here you lost me. What do you want to compare? In Eclipse "preview" commonly refers to a window that shows, what code would look like, if certain changes (refactoring etc.) were applied. But search doesn't change anything, so what is a "preview" in your terminology?

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Re: Problem about plugin supports search feature In eclipse [message #1816760 is a reply to message #1816755]

Wed, 06 November 2019 12:35

Emmanuel Chebbi

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Registered: February 2018

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Stephan Herrmann wrote on Wed, 06 November 2019 12:20

Quote:
a preview in a new window that I can easily compare code with

Here you lost me. What do you want to compare? In Eclipse "preview" commonly refers to a window that shows, what code would look like, if certain changes (refactoring etc.) were applied. But search doesn't change anything, so what is a "preview" in your terminology?

@Stephan, it looks like IntelliJ's search dialog shows the lines where the search results have been found [1]; that may be the feature David is talking about:

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/user_images/89IhZk4SLE5JFyQ_TX5nyw.png

(screenshot found at [2])

@David, as Stephan I am not sure about the exact feature you're missing but you can use the CTRL+H shortcut to perform an advanced search. Results will be shown in the Search view and you'll be able to preview the changes if you want to replace search results.

If you're working on Java you can combine the Search view with the Declaration view to see the code where the results have been found; that's not exactly what IntelliJ offers but that's the closest I can think of.

[1] https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/user_images/89IhZk4SLE5JFyQ_TX5nyw.png
[2] https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000151604-New-Find-in-Path-window

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Re: Problem about plugin supports search feature In eclipse [message #1817600 is a reply to message #1816760]

Tue, 26 November 2019 12:53

Emmanuel Chebbi

Messages: 123
Registered: February 2018

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It looks like Eclipse 2019-12 will feature an enhanced Quick Search dialog that shows matching lines [1] that behaves like IntelliJ's one. See bug 548518 [2] for the discussion about this new feature.

https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.13/images/quick-search.png

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.13/platform.php#quick-text-search
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=548518

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