Some Eclipse Foundation services are deprecated, or will be soon. Please ensure you've read this important communication.

Bug 149664

Summary: Search View has no shortcut key to expand all.
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ricky Clarkson <ricky_clarkson>
Component: SearchAssignee: Platform-Search-Inbox <platform-search-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, martinae, max.gilead, pwebster
Version: 3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Ricky Clarkson CLA 2006-07-05 09:08:16 EDT
The global expand all combination move, Alt-NumPadPlus, does not work in the Search View.

I would like to see it work, or even be on a different key.
Comment 1 Ricky Clarkson CLA 2006-07-05 09:09:08 EDT
(In reply to comment #0)
> The global expand all combination move, Alt-NumPadPlus, does not work in the
> Search View.
> I would like to see it work, or even be on a different key.

Er, Alt-NumPadMultiply
Comment 2 Paul Webster CLA 2006-07-05 09:11:20 EDT
In JDT, CTRL+NUMPAD_PLUS is expand, and CTRL+NUMPAD_MULTIPLY is Expand all.  They also have keybindings for collapse and collapse all.

PW
Comment 3 Max Gilead CLA 2007-11-06 06:53:46 EST
Right now (3.4M3) pressing NumPadMultiply repeatedly effectively expands all search results, NumPadPlus expands nearest branch. Pressing them with Alt doesn't work but I'm on a laptop so it might be it.

It's great that this shortcut work but would it be hard to add ExpandAll to context menu? Frankly, I was unaware of this shortcut until I found this bug report.
Comment 4 Max Gilead CLA 2007-11-06 06:55:53 EST
Ctrl+ abovementioned keys also don't work for me (on a laptop, so I can't be sure it's a bug or not).
Comment 5 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2007-11-06 07:14:32 EST
Numpad * is the Expand shortcut defined by Windows OS for trees.

For this reason I don't think we should provide s search specific shortcut.
Comment 6 Max Gilead CLA 2007-11-06 07:41:00 EST
Heh, I work on Linux/Gnome but this key works as I described above anyway :)

Martin, you marked this bug as wontfix but didn't answer my question about adding a context menu entry for Expand All. Should I file separate bug for this or I shouldn't bother because you'll mark it as wontfix anyway? :)
Comment 7 Paul Webster CLA 2007-11-06 08:01:55 EST
See also bug 168757

PW
Comment 8 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2007-11-06 09:17:50 EST
Yes, I think a separate bug would be better, but I just added the action to the context menu > 20071106
Comment 9 Dani Megert CLA 2017-04-12 11:58:25 EDT
.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 503155 ***