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Bug 56189

Summary:	[41cat] Quick Search should use substring, not prefix (was: find single packages on Projects View)
Product:	platform	Reporter:	llturro <llturro>
Component:	Explorer	Assignee:	t_h <t_h>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	UI
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description llturro 2005-03-10 17:16:09 UTC

[ BUILD # : Beta ]
[ JDK VERSION : 1.5.0_01 ]

Quick Search is a great utility, but in Projects View doesn't find packages unless you specify the full package path.

Possible solutions would be:

1) Using indexOf() instead of startsWith() ;D
2) Having wild cards ('*') or regular expressions

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2005-03-11 23:49:08 UTC

I could have sworn I had already filed an RFE to use substring rather than
prefix, but I can't find it now.

Note that you can use TAB to complete the longest suffix of prefixes still
matching, which is helpful in this kind of situation: for

org.foo.core
org.foo.ui
org.foo.utils

press O, TAB, C, ENTER to select "org.foo.core".

Comment 2 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2008-02-07 16:06:23 UTC

Reassigning to new module owner Tomas Holy.

Comment 3 t_h 2008-10-20 13:03:37 UTC


*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 30187 ***