One thing really really annoys me about the Eclipse ide: its find UI is so old style.
I would much prefer something like Firefox or Safari, that doesn't clutter my screen real estate with a useless window.
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Press ctrl+j. Is that what you want? Hold down shift to go backwards.
Salty
2009-01-03 16:30:00
Exactly what I meant. Thank you. My first question on StackOverflow has been anwered in 15 min. It rocks.
silviot
2009-01-03 16:37:59
Agreed. Stackoverflow is awesome. I'm glad I could help. :)
Salty
2009-01-03 16:39:08
Oh, also, when you get a right answer, remember to press the checkmark next to it. ;)
Salty
2009-01-03 16:40:34
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You mean, like... Ctrl+F, and then Ctrl+K?
You don't have to use the Search menu.
On the other hand, if you just don't like the popup dialog, I think you're SOL for now.
John Stoneham
2009-01-03 16:30:32
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The Eclipse "find" dialog does more than "find" on browsers you mentioned (e.g. search-and-replace, etc.) Having more options means more real estate to control them.
joel.neely
2009-01-03 16:33:26
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And, if Eclipse's incremental search is not enough, you could always use a plugin like Glance.
From their site:
Glance is an Eclipse plug-in providing extensible useful incremental text search in Eclipse. This plug-in supports the following features:
- highlight all found matches
- background search which never blocks text box
- search in tables and trees
- update matches when target content changed
- new text containers can be supported through extension points
- a lot of search settings
TataBlack
2009-12-17 10:17:26