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| <h1>Starting a Quick Text Search</h1> |
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| <p>Quick Text Search is a convenient alternative to Search Dialong and Search View. |
| It provides a popup dialog that is especially well-suited to jump around the workspace |
| quickly using textual matches. |
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| <p>A Quick Text Search can usually be started by pressing its keyboard shortut CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-L ( |
| or CMD-ALT-SHIFT-L on Mac). This will popup the following dialog: |
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| <p>To run a workspace-wide Quick Text Search, simply type text in the main search field and you'll see |
| the list of possible matches updated live as you type. You can also select some text in a Eclipse view |
| or editor prior to opening the dialog. The selected text will be entered automatically into the |
| search box.</p> |
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| <p>The dialog has these features:</p> |
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| <li>A main search box in which you can enter a search string. The string can contain <code>*</code> and <code>?</code> |
| wildcard characters. These characters will be interpreted in the usual way (<code>*</code> matches any |
| sequence of characters and <code>?</code> matches any single character). |
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| <li>The 'In:' input allows limiting the search scope to files who's path/name matches any of |
| a list of patterns. The syntax is the same as that used in '.gitignore' inclusion patterns. |
| Multiple patterns can be entered and are separated by commas. The patterns are matched |
| against workspace paths. So you can use a pattern like <code>/project-name/**</code> to search files |
| in a specific project. |
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| <li> |
| A table of 'Matching Items'. You can select items in the table by clicking on them or |
| using the arrow up/down keys. The contents of the table is updated in real time, as you type |
| in the search box. |
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| A 'Open' button. Clicking this will open the currently selected match in a editor. |
| If no match is currently selected, the first match will be opened instead. |
| This action can also be invoked by pressing |
| the 'Enter' key rather than clicking the button. By default the dialog is 'modal' |
| and it will close upon invoking this action. |
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| A pull-down menu provides options to: |
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| <li>Switch between case-sensitive versus case-insensitive matching</li> |
| <li>Keep the dialog open (i.e. the dialog becomes 'non-modal' and does not close after selecting an item and |
| opening it.</li> |
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| A 'Refresh' button. This can be useful to manually trigger the dialog to refresh its matches. |
| This may be especially useful if you are using the dialog in a 'non-modal' |
| way (because the non-modal dialog may remain open for extended periods of time, but its matches are not |
| automatically refreshed if the file content is changed). |
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