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Bug 97439

Summary:	[Preferences] preference filtering: allow more than one keyword
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tom Hofmann <eclipse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, for.work.things, jared_burns, martinae, sja.eclipse, Tod_Creasey
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Tom Hofmann

2005-05-31 08:19:56 EDT

3.1-RC1

- open preference dialog
- enter 'build path' or 'print margin' (without quotes) as filter expression

expected: the relevant pages are found - either the intersection or the union of
the ones found by entering either one of the keywords as filter expression.

actual: no page is found

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2005-05-31 08:33:29 EDT

Note that if I define:
      <keyword
            label="print margin"
            id="org.eclipse.ui.editors.general"/>


It correctly allows "print margin" and finds the page but I cannot define a
second keyword:
      <keyword
            label="line number"
            id="org.eclipse.ui.editors.general"/>

Only one contribution per ID seems allowed.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2005-05-31 08:53:56 EDT

The 'org.eclipse.ui.keywords' extension point doc doesn't describe that all
keywords have to be put into one label, it says:
  label - The human readable label of the keyword

and it's not obvious that only one label per keyword is allowed.

Comment 3 Simon Archer

2006-08-22 14:51:59 EDT

*** Bug 154738 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Simon Archer

2006-08-22 15:24:26 EDT

My duplicate (bug 154738) makes the following points...

1) Disallow spaces in the filter field.  It seems that when you include a space
   the only mult-word matches are on the preference categories.  For example,
   entering "Code Style" yields the "Java > Code Style" preference page.

2) Fully support multiple keywords by ANDing the search results for each
   keyword entered.

Comment 5 Tod Creasey

2007-03-19 08:44:23 EDT

There are currently no plans to work on this feature but we would be interested in patches people wish to contribute.

Comment 6 Denis Roy

2009-08-30 02:19:40 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.