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Mon, 27 February 2006 02:44

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: karimov_sa_trash.mail.ru

Hi everyone,

I'm an expirienced C# programmer and recently I've been switched to Java
development. I tried to get known with eclipse environment and didn't
found the feature that seemed to me unquestionable for any code
development environment.

Feature: in any text editor press Ctrl+F (search) and if cursor is
positioned inside some word - this word is automatically becomes "find
what".

In eclipse you have to explicitly select some text, then press Ctrl+F to
force selected text to become "find what". To achieve required result you
have to press: Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Shift+Right, Ctrl+F (select word then
search selection).

I tried to find some option like "search current word if nothing selected"
but failed.

This feature is very usefull when you navigate through some text. you can
quickly jump through keywords that you remember.
Ofcause there are alternate ways (one of them I've described) but all them
are very complicated and uncumfortable.

The question is: Is there such or alike feature in Eclipse? if not how do
you people (I mean Java developers) live without it?

a bit off-topic [message #140417 is a reply to message #140405]

Mon, 27 February 2006 02:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: karimov_sa_trash.mail.ru

I couldn't find the same feature in other popular ide - IDEA.
At the same time Borland and Microsoft IDE's include this feature for at
least 7 years (all my developer ages)

Re: Microsoft-like search [message #140424 is a reply to message #140405]

Mon, 27 February 2006 03:16

Eclipse User

Hi Sergey,

I just had a look and this worked as expected (selection filled in the
"find" expression) it in I20060221-1300.

You can also use Ctrl(+Shift)+K to jump to the next (previous)
occurrence without opening the find dialog.

-tom

Sergey wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm an expirienced C# programmer and recently I've been switched to Java
> development. I tried to get known with eclipse environment and didn't
> found the feature that seemed to me unquestionable for any code
> development environment.
>
> Feature: in any text editor press Ctrl+F (search) and if cursor is
> positioned inside some word - this word is automatically becomes "find
> what".
> In eclipse you have to explicitly select some text, then press Ctrl+F to
> force selected text to become "find what". To achieve required result
> you have to press: Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Shift+Right, Ctrl+F (select word then
> search selection).
>
> I tried to find some option like "search current word if nothing
> selected" but failed.
>
> This feature is very usefull when you navigate through some text. you
> can quickly jump through keywords that you remember. Ofcause there are
> alternate ways (one of them I've described) but all them are very
> complicated and uncumfortable.
>
> The question is: Is there such or alike feature in Eclipse? if not how
> do you people (I mean Java developers) live without it?
>

Re: Microsoft-like search [message #140433 is a reply to message #140424]

Mon, 27 February 2006 03:35

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: karimov_sa_trash.mail.ru

Hi Tom,

> I just had a look and this worked as expected (selection filled in the
> "find" expression) it in I20060221-1300.

I'll try to find 3.1.2 (latest release) first (it might be in our corporate
network). then I'll download specified build.
Very big thanks!
When I have some result, I'll post it here.

> You can also use Ctrl(+Shift)+K to jump to the next (previous) occurrence
> without opening the find dialog.
Thanks for reminding, I knew that. and actually I use "find first" and "find
next" in combination almost anytime.

Re: Microsoft-like search [message #140677 is a reply to message #140433]

Tue, 28 February 2006 01:32

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: karimov_sa_trash.mail.ru

> When I have some result, I'll post it here.
I tried Eclipse 3.1.2 - latest release build and there was no such feature.
As soon as I be able to download specified build (I20060221-1300) I'll try
it out.
But it seems that we'll wait until next release build (that includes
features of build I20060221-1300).

Re: Microsoft-like search [message #142371 is a reply to message #140677]

Thu, 09 March 2006 09:42

Eclipse User

Oops, I was wrong - I misread your original post and thought it was just
about having the find expression filled if there is a selection.

What your request does not work currently. See
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=51223 for the
corresponding bug.

-tom

Sergey Karimov wrote:
>> When I have some result, I'll post it here.
> I tried Eclipse 3.1.2 - latest release build and there was no such feature.
> As soon as I be able to download specified build (I20060221-1300) I'll try
> it out.
> But it seems that we'll wait until next release build (that includes
> features of build I20060221-1300).
>
>

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