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Bug 316911

Summary:	[QuickAccess] Quick Access dialog should support wildcards
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	prakash
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Markus Keller

2010-06-15 10:26:18 EDT

I20100608-0911
The Quick Access dialog should support wildcards, or at least multiple words. If I e.g. want to open a particular view or invoke a quick assist command, I currently have to type too much.

StringMatcher would do the job nicely, but you could also tokenize the input string and show results that match all of the whitespace-separated tokens (e.g. "qui extrac" would match "Quick Assist - Extract local variable".

Comment 1 Prakash Rangaraj

2010-06-15 11:52:00 EDT

You don't have to type the whole words QAELV works for me for "Quick Assist - Extract local variable".

Comment 2 Markus Keller

2010-06-16 07:04:28 EDT

I knew there was some other matching method, but I didn't remember it, and I found nothing in the help. At least, the matching of initial characters should be mentioned there.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:04:03 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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