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Bug 359686

Summary:	[IDE][Dialogs] Open Resource dialog should work like Firefox awesomebar
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Neale Upstone <neale>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	deepakazad, markus.kell.r, remy.suen
Version:	3.7.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Neale Upstone

2011-10-03 06:56:01 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.7.1

It's hard easily open some resources with only the keyboard, and I have to resort to the mouse to scroll to find the correct one of many with the same/similar name.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. With a reasonable sized Maven project open after having built it 
2. Open the Open Resource.. dialog
3. type "surefire Test"
4. no results

Wanted behaviour

4. I want to see results where the resource file path contains all of the whitespace separated tokens that I have typed

This would be especially useful when the user wants a specific pom.xml, .project or .classpath file.

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-10-03 09:20:00 EDT

You can use * and / to create wildcards and also path separators.

Comment 2 Neale Upstone

2011-10-03 12:36:43 EDT

Typing *surefire*/*Test* isn't quite the same thing

It's a UX thing.  

There is no indication in that dialog that paths are included at all, and now I know they are, it's still a pain to work with, as once I've typed, say pom.xml, I then have to go to the beginning of the line when I discover the choice is large.