I prefer NetBeans style Incremental Search Bar interface instead of the usual Find/Replace Dialog. Eclipse only has the Find/Replace Dialog. So I implemented a similar Find/Replace Bar for Eclipse. Here are the screenshots:
Known issue: If you have customized the perspective, the Find bar view will be shown with a tab unlike the above screenshot. Try resetting the perspective and the tab may go away. I had mixed success with that though.
Find/Replace Bar Plug-in is on Eclipse Marketplace !
Currently the Find/Replace Bar supports the following features:
Find/Replace Bar Plug-in is on Eclipse Marketplace !
Currently the Find/Replace Bar supports the following features:
- Find as you type
- Find Next/Find Previous
- same key bindings as Eclipse
- Show the total number of occurrences in the document
- Case sensitive mode
- Whole word only mode
- Regular Expression mode
- Indicate illegal regular expression
- Show Find/Replace dialog by pressing CTRL+F on Windows and Linux and COMMAND+F on Mac
- Enable/Disable Find/Replace Bar using preferences
- Show Preferences button on the Find/Replace Bar
- Optionally override the standard Find/Replace Dialog of Eclipse. Control the override through preference page.
- Press CTRL+F on Windows and Linux and COMMAND+F on Mac to show the Find/Replace Bar
- Press ESCAPE to hide the Find/Replace bar
- Find/Replace Bar works with text editors inside a Multi page editor e.g. plugin.xml XML editor inside the Plug-in Manifest editor.
- Show the preceding and succeeding match count
- Show text matching groups in regular expressions in a combobox
I am planning to implement the following enhancements:
- Full Replace/Find,Replace and Replace All support
- Find in selection
- Highlight current and other occurrences of the matched text
- Highlight groups in regular expressions in different colors
- Show current line number and column range of the match
- Make it work in Console and other views where Find/Replace dialog is applicable
You can install it from the plug-in's update site:
http://sandipchitaleseclipseplugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FindReplaceBarUpdateSite/
Please file any issues at:
http://code.google.com/p/sandipchitaleseclipseplugins/issues/list
After installing the plug-in, go the Find/Replace Bar preferences page to enable the Find/Replace Bar as shown in the screenshot below:
Please file any issues at:
http://code.google.com/p/sandipchitaleseclipseplugins/issues/list
After installing the plug-in, go the Find/Replace Bar preferences page to enable the Find/Replace Bar as shown in the screenshot below:
Works on Eclipse 3.6 and 3.5.2
Enjoy!
