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Bug 322981

Summary:	Introduce a NotPattern
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	joerg <joerg.domaschka>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	amj87.iitr, joerg.domaschka
Version:	3.5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description joerg

2010-08-18 03:20:43 EDT

Build Identifier: M20090917-0800

In some situations it would be nice to exclude some patterns from a search. Such as: find all types in java.lang.* except java.lang.String. Currently, it is very cumbersome to achieve such a behaviour via SearchPattern. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
nothing to reproduce as this is a feature request

Comment 1 Ayushman Jain

2010-08-18 09:26:40 EDT

Satyam please follow up. Thanks!