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Eclipse: search for folders and resources in Project Explorer

I am looking for a way to search easly anything which is shown Project Explorer. Using Open Resource dialog allows me only to search for resources. I found this question How to find Eclipse projects & folders by name? but the plugins described there looks like do not work in Eclipse Juno properly.

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firen Avatar asked Oct 18 '12 09:10

firen


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Not exactly it, but better than nothing:

Expand everything you want to search (try using shift+numpad *). Once it's actually visible, you can start typing keyword, and it will be located.

Plugins like eclipse glance allow for highlighting, moving, wildcards, regular expressions.

You can also use Ctrl + Shift + R, which allows you to locate resource(s) directly, without even browsing through project explorer.

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dbrank0 Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 11:09

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