IntegratedSearch
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Motivation
According to users feedback it looks like we need to improve search capabilities in the NetBeans IDE. We have many issues complaining both Search Options and Search Performance. Some users prefer command line grep, or external editors over NetBeans Search feature. This enhancement was identified as problematic by QE Quality for 7.0.
Voc
- Very slow search on big projects ... "while a find/grepf from the command line is fast."
Description
We need to improve search dialog capabilities and also overall search performance. Eclipse has very complete search dialog containing general search, very powerful language specific searches, remote searches, task searches. Idea also provides structural search (jackpot like search). Our search features are not well integrated. We have Find, Replace, Find in Files, Replace in Files, Find Usages. Maybe we should improve and better integrate those features.
Schedule
TBD
Current Status
Just idea. Research need to be done.
Dependencies
TBD
Impacts
UI change
Documentation
User guide and docs.
Testing
TBD
Performance
TBD
Risks
TBD
Additional information
Search - list of bugs/enhancements reported by Ulf Zibis (probably the biggest 'search' user :-)
- 141952 "Image for Replace button"
- 141959 "Missing Find and Replace in Customize Toolbars"
- 142335 "Can't add 'Replace' to toolbar"
- 146808 "Wrong scope for "Find" if 2 editor panes open"
- 146810 ""Find" action not recordable by macro recording"
- 146818 "Combine "Find", "Replace..." and "Find in Projects" in same dialogue"
- 148984 "Open searchbar after find actions"
- 148985 "search context lost for Modify Criteria"
- 148987 "Provide all possible Find/Replace actions at any context"
- 148989 "Allow linebreaks, tabs for Find/Replace actions"
