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InstaSearch

InstaSearch
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Mars (4.5)
Luna (4.4)
Kepler (4.3)
Juno (4.2, 3.8)
Previous to Juno (<=4.1)
Neon (4.6)
Oxygen (4.7)
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2018-09 (4.9)

http://dl.bintray.com/ajermakovics/InstaSearch/

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Details

InstaSearch is an Eclipse plug-in for doing fast text search in the workspace. The search is performed instantly as-you-type and resulting files are displayed in an Eclipse view. It is a lightweight plug-in based on Apache Lucene search engine.

Each file then can be previewed using few most matching and relevant lines. A double-click on the match leads to the matching line in the file.

Main Features

  • Instantly shows search results
  • Shows suggestions using auto-completion
  • Shows a preview using relevant lines
  • Matches partial words
  • Opens and highlights matches in files
  • Searches jar source attachments

GitHub: https://github.com/ajermakovics/eclipse-instasearch

Categories:
  • Code Management,
  • Search,
  • Tools
Tags:
  • search,
  • find,
  • index,
  • lucene,
  • autocomplete,
  • instant
Additional Details
Eclipse Versions: 
Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), Kepler (4.3), Juno (4.2, 3.8), Previous to Juno (<=4.1), Neon (4.6), Oxygen (4.7), Photon (4.8), 2018-09 (4.9)
Platform Support: 
Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK
Organization Name: 
Andrejs Jermakovics
Development Status: 
Production/Stable
Date Created: 
Fri, 2009-12-18 11:13
License: 
EPL
Date Updated: 
Mon, 2019-02-04 13:53
Submitted by: 
Andrejs Jermakovics
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DateRankingInstallsClickthroughs
May 2022NA0 (0%)24
April 2022NA0 (0%)42
March 2022NA0 (0%)25
February 2022NA0 (0%)19
January 2022NA0 (0%)17
December 2021NA0 (0%)18
November 2021NA0 (0%)23
October 2021NA0 (0%)23
September 2021NA0 (0%)17
August 2021NA0 (0%)19
July 2021NA0 (0%)41
June 2021NA0 (0%)23
May 2021NA10
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hujo's picture

Problem occured:

Submitted by Haris Žujo on Thu, 2021-07-29 07:37

Problem occured:

No repository found at h..p://dl.bintray.com/ajermakovics/InstaSearch

kmalu's picture

Not working on the 2021-06

Submitted by Keshav Malu on Tue, 2021-07-06 04:51

Hello, Can some one fix the issue for this. Its not working on the current version of eclipse

hnguyenjpt's picture

Cannot install as the repo cannot access

Submitted by Hung Nguyen on Thu, 2021-05-20 23:34

I cannot install this plugin anymore as error message showed that no repo at bintray. I do searching and seems bintray is gonna be shutdown. Please move to other service.
Thanks

kmalu's picture

Re: Cannot install as the repo cannot access

Submitted by Keshav Malu on Tue, 2021-07-06 04:50

I too have the same issue, not sure whom to contact?

amcgovern81u's picture

Configuration

Submitted by Andrew McGovern on Thu, 2016-12-08 13:58

How do I configure this? I don't see it in preferences or anywhere else.

jmussons's picture

amazing plugin, a must have

Submitted by Jaume Mussons on Wed, 2016-11-30 04:00

This plugin performs amazingly. I checked it out after some fellow devs where annoying me with the intelliJ search feature, and ... Well, this beats the hell out of it, so good work!

rrollins's picture

Doesn't support exact-match search

Submitted by Robert Rollins on Thu, 2016-11-10 18:00

I can't even begin to imagine how a search plugin for an IDE was designed without the ability to search for exact matches, but InstaSearch was.

If you search for "variable_name", the search results will include all instances of "variable", "name", "variable_name", "Variable", and "Name" (it doesn't support case sensitive search). There is no way to turn this off (disabling "find similar matches" doesn't disable this), so you may end up with thousands of totally spurious results when searching through large working sets.

Eclipse is a programmer's tool, and programmers almost always want precision results when searching. A search plugin that doesn't offer any kind of precision is virtually useless.

smisingname6x3's picture

Problems with encoding.

Submitted by Sinedanat Mising name on Tue, 2016-06-14 11:53

There problems with native encodings.
As yo can see on screenshots in Eclipse settings UTF-8 is used for all files.
But the InstaSearch plugin couldn't find and couldn't ever indexed *.java files with Russian letters.

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ahmann's picture

Index Update blocks launcher

Submitted by Andreas öhmann on Wed, 2016-06-01 07:44

Nice plugin but if the indexer is running I can't start a launcher. Please fix this :)

wwahnwitz's picture

Nice, but...

Submitted by Wotan Wahnwitz on Thu, 2016-03-24 09:53

in our prgramming language is a "l.var" or "l.var.second" (one or more dots between words) a normal variable. When I search something like "l.dim" then also dim is found. But I want to find only exactly words (simular find mode is off). What can I do?

Thanks and regards
Wotan

ecina's picture

Great plugin. I use it everyday

Submitted by Mister Eric on Thu, 2015-07-09 12:14

I love this plugin. We have a huge code base and searching my workspace can be time consuming. This plugin saves me so much time. I don't know what I would do without it.

How can I add a search term without having to copy and paste the text into instasearch? I've tried shortcuts but haven't been successful in getting the text to appear without manually copying and pasting.

There are so many features that can be added to this plugin. Mostly I would expand on the filters and allow filters on the searches and not just on the indexing. If you could filter searches for certain projects, folders, files, etc without affecting the indexing that would be great. I like having everything indexed and being able to pick and choose what I search for on a particular search.

dkhambhatwala's picture

cool stuff, but cant find package level search if needed

Submitted by Divyesh Khambhatwala on Tue, 2015-07-07 02:37

if I want to search within specific package than how can I do that?
Am I missing something!

rbabuo2p's picture

Search inside maven dependency jars

Submitted by Ramesh Babu on Sat, 2015-07-04 03:50

It is really super fast search. I also tried to search inside my Maven dependency jar but it is not searching inside the jar. Is there any extra setting i need to do?

ajermakovicsy15's picture

Index JAR Source Attachements

Submitted by Andrejs Jermakovics on Mon, 2015-07-06 10:57

Yes, you should go to InstaSearch plugin preferences and enable 'Index JAR Source Attachements'. Then re-eindex the workspace

gwhyte's picture

It's a nice tool, but it would be great if...

Submitted by Graeme Whyte on Fri, 2014-05-30 11:53

...the search results could all be shown without requiring expansion (at least have an option for this)

This speeds up scanning search results. Textpad search results are the quickest for me to scan. I don't know why eclipse search tools like requiring people to expand items.

If it had an option to show some context lines around each search result (something that can be easily disabled/enabled), then it makes it more powerful and like sublimetext.

sawantni's picture

very nice tool

Submitted by Saqib Awan on Sun, 2012-12-30 16:26

no doubt about it.

kshahj1h's picture

Not working properly

Submitted by Kruti Shah on Thu, 2012-11-01 13:33

Hi ,

The Instasearch is just searching .java files and not any other ext files like .js.
Could you please help me resolve this issue.

ajermakovicsy15's picture

Extensions of files to be

Submitted by Andrejs Jermakovics on Thu, 2014-03-13 12:52

Extensions of files to be indexed can be specified in plugin's preferences

smisingname6x3's picture

Excellent job!

Submitted by Sinedanat Mising name on Wed, 2012-07-11 04:21

Great thanks for this plug-in. Now I can instantly find any peace of code. The bigger a project the more efficient this plug-in is. It works in Eclipse 4.2 too.
Thanks a lot!

ppavel's picture

excellent plug-in

Submitted by Petr 'PePa' Pavel on Thu, 2010-06-03 08:41

It's fast as hell and the author is very responsive to community suggestions and bug reports. If you have any issue create a ticket at the project's website and it will be resolved quickly.

It's on a good way to become a replacement for the default file search.

Thank you!

Petr

mmisingnameai1's picture

how i use it?

Submitted by Missing name Mising name on Fri, 2010-05-07 06:50

hi. How I use InstaSearch after instainstalling? I can't assign key to InstaSearch, can't open InstaSearch view :-( I use Zend Studio 7.2.

Thank you for tips. Tom.

ajermakovicsy15's picture

Java version

Submitted by Andrejs Jermakovics on Sat, 2010-05-15 07:14

Hi Tom,
The new version of the plug-in should run on Zend studio since Java 1.5 is now sufficient.

alexa.sunshine@gmail.com's picture

I like it

Submitted by alexa.sunshine@gmail.com on Fri, 2010-04-16 08:41

It's really instant and it searches through all the files in the project. I really needed this plug-in. Great job!

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