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Bug 501342

Summary:	[navigation] Quick Outline should use matching with "contains" logic instead of "startwith"
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	markus.kell.r, stephan.herrmann
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Lars Vogel

2016-09-13 10:39:43 EDT

Currently if I search for a method in Quick Outline containing "maximize" I have to type "*maximize*". 

I think with subwords completion in the JDT editor, we should also match based on the String.contains logic. This is IMHO nicer for the user. 

Please note that we do this for almost every dialog in PDE which allows you to search for a plug-in or feature, if you find one which does not add automatically * that would be a bug in the PDE dialog.

Comment 1 Markus Keller

2016-09-14 10:25:10 EDT

I agree we should investigate this, but it needs more thought than simply adding a "*" at the beginning. In PDE, that was an acceptable shortcut because most bundle names start with the same "org." or "com." anyway, and these words are rarely used as sole filter.

Java Content Assist required more changes to ensure that prefix completion proposals stay on top of the list. In Quick Outline, this also needs changes in all sorting modes.

Comment 2 Eclipse Genie

2020-04-28 19:13:40 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. As such, we're closing this bug.

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