Comments on: Eclipse: Incremental Find…

By: Antoine

Antoine — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:19:53 +0000

Actually, it not as efficient as emacs, but you can find the occurence of a selection by using Ctrl + k

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:21:06 +0000

Incremental search seems broken to me. You have to type your search term! In emacs you can start an incremental search and hit control-w to select the next element (like ctrl-shift-right in eclipse). Then you can keep searching for what you just selected. As far as I can tell there’s no way to search for a selection with Eclipse’s incremental search.

By: Endre Stølsvik

Endre Stølsvik — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:46:52 +0000

Both of those features are of course really cool: If you’re searching for a long string, moving to the front of that string is nice to do with just “one additional stroke”. Being informed in rather subtle way that you’re wrapping is of is also nice, so that you don’t believe you’re still searching downward: you’ve actually wrapped.

By: Frank Merenda

Frank Merenda — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:31:02 +0000

Nice! I had no idea, and I’ve been using eclipse for over a year now!

Take care,
-Frank

By: Erik Weibust

Erik Weibust — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:37:55 +0000

Howdy Tom,

Thanks for stopping by. I agree that incremental search in Eclipse is very similar to that feature in vim, but in vim the search simply wraps when it hits the bottom of the document, or when you switch directions.

Erik

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:46:34 +0000

And in Vim, it’s called “incsearch” where “inc” means incremental. So Eclipse isn’t too different in its terminology. (And old-timey vi doesn’t have it.) Anyway, I agree that it’s useful.