Why does Eclipse 'filter results from view' when searching?

Question

Often when I'm searching for referenced types, Eclipse search will return no actual results but provide the message (3 matches filtered from view) .. for example.

Why is it filtering results and how do I disable this?

thanks

Answer 1

If you click the down arrow at the top right corner of the Search pane then you will get a popup menu with Filters... second from the bottom. You will then see a dialog with Select the matches to exclude from the search results: Untick the options in the list as needed. I think the default is only to exclude search results in imports.