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Bug 41967

Summary: A "Go to any file" feature, just like "Go to class"
Product: projects Reporter: giovannif <giovannif>
Component: Generic Projects UIAssignee: Petr Hrebejk <phrebejk>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description giovannif 2004-04-14 18:15:12 UTC 
The "Go to class" really helps a lot. A similar 
function would be the capability to go to any 
file of the project. A web project has many 
directories. A feature like this would really 
help to acess any files.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2004-07-24 22:50:52 UTC 
There was some attempted module ("navigator" I think? or
"accelerator"?) to do this. Of course you can use Ctrl-O and use a
file chooser.
Comment 2 David Simonek 2005-05-09 10:47:57 UTC 
Such feature belongs more to projects then UI, passing...
Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2005-05-09 18:43:28 UTC 
No plans to implement AFAIK. Would require creating (and maintaining) an index
of files located within a project, which could become a serious performance
problem for large projects. For classes we already have the info from classpath
scanning since this is needed for so many purposes anyway. Another problem is
the likelihood that a general file will have an undistinguished name (build.xml,
index.html, etc.) as compared to a Java class.

Anyone interested in working on such a feature should take a look at the
accelerators module which I think tried to do this. (It was mostly a failure
from the performance perspective, I think.)
Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2005-05-10 14:12:30 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 44586 ***