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Bug 299503

Summary:

[find/replace] 'Whole word' option doesn't re-enable after RE option is turned off

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Navid Mehregani <nmehrega>

Component:

Text

Assignee:

Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert

Version:

3.6

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Find dialog	none

Description Navid Mehregani

2010-01-13 10:33:52 EST

Follow the instructions below to reproduce this problem:

- Open a Java file
- Press CTRL+F to open Find/Replace Dialog
- Select Regular expressions check box
- Type in main.* (or some other function name in your text file) under find text box  (notice the 'Whole word' check box is disabled as expected)
- Click on Find button
- Turn off 'Regular expressions' check box.  At this point 'Whole word' check box should be re-enabled, but it stays disabled (see attached snapshot).

I tried this in Eclipse 3.6M2 release.

Comment 1 Navid Mehregani

2010-01-13 10:35:09 EST

Created attachment 155990 [details]
Find dialog

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2010-01-13 10:59:45 EST

I cannot reproduce this using Eclipse SDK 3.6 M2 or latest (I20100112-0800).
Anything in .log? Are you using Windows XP as indicated?

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2010-01-13 11:05:06 EST

Should have looked better: the option is disabled because the search string is not a word and hence that option is not available.

Comment 4 Navid Mehregani

2010-01-13 11:53:13 EST

hmm, 'Whole word' is disabled as soon as a period is typed in 'find' text box.  I always assumed anything that doesn't have a space before or after it can be considered a "Whole Word".  

EditPlus, for example, works as follows:

Searching for "blah." with whole word selected would find the first instance, but not the second one.

blah.  blah.some text following.

This is not a huge deal so we can leave the bug as invalid.