Description Simon Archer 2006-08-22 14:47:15 EDT

The ability to filter preference pages based on keywords entered by the user is very useful.  Unfortunately it only really works on a single keyword, and not multiple keywords.  Multi-keyword matches are only made against the preference categories on the left of the Preferences dialog.

For example, if you enter "tab" in the filter field you get:

-General
   Appearence
  -Editors
    Text Editors
-Java
  -Code Style
    Formatter
  -Editor
    Typing


And if you enter "width" in the filter field you get:

-General
  -Editors
    Text Editors


But, if you enter "tab width", you get nothing, which is rather unfortunate.  I would like to see one of the following:

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.