Bug 292884 – [EditorMgmt] Quick Switch Editor can not by default search on substring

Bug 292884 - [EditorMgmt] Quick Switch Editor can not by default search on substring


Summary:	[EditorMgmt] Quick Switch Editor can not by default search on substring

Status:	NEW

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse
Component:	UI
Version:	3.5.1
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Platform UI Triaged
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Reported:	2009-10-21 08:54 EDT by Daniel Svensson
Modified:	2009-11-17 13:04 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Daniel Svensson

2009-10-21 08:54:08 EDT

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090820 Iceweasel/3.5.3 (Debian-3.5.3-1)
Build Identifier: I20090917-0100

To search for substrings you need to start with the '*' character which is, at least on my keyboard, a two key combination which makes it uncomfortable to type. It would be very nice if I could configure Eclipse to always search on substrings, sorted by the start-position of the substring.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open file Monkey.java, Ninja.java, Wehey.java
2. C-x b and type ey
3. Nothing is matched.. but the list should be Wehey.java followed by Monkey.java as 'ey' in Monkey.java has a later start-position.

Comment 1 Daniel Svensson

2009-10-21 09:14:48 EDT

Hmm.. missing details in the description. In Emacs I can match buffers based on multiple substrings, so if I have these buffers open:

TestModel.java
TestNinja.java
ModelWorld.java


I could write:
m to match TestModel.java and ModelWorld.java
mor to match ModelWorld.java
esta to match TestNinja.java

This way similar files are easily accessible because you know the fragments of the names.

More details:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings#toc1

Comment 2 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-17 13:04:27 EST

Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.