Eclipse Quick Search is a fast and easy to use "search as you type" text search tool. Open with Cmd-Shift-L, type your search and see results immediately.
Please note: As of Eclipse 2019-09, the Quick Text Search got contributed to the Eclipse platform project, so no need to install it as a separate feature anymore. Every single Eclipse user on the planet can enjoy this feature now out-of-the-box.
https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.13/platform.php#quick-text-search
Categories: IDE
Tags: search, search-as-you-type
Additional Details
Eclipse Versions: 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), Neon (4.6), Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), Kepler (4.3)
Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK
Organization Name: Pivotal
Development Status: Production/Stable
Date Created: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 07:47
License: EPL
Date Updated: Monday, November 4, 2019 - 08:14
Submitted by: Martin Lippert
Date | Ranking | Installs | Clickthroughs |
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December 2024 | 99/520 | 46 | 2 |
November 2024 | 112/658 | 258 | 11 |
October 2024 | 98/663 | 325 | 10 |
September 2024 | 111/642 | 266 | 12 |
August 2024 | 96/641 | 269 | 38 |
July 2024 | 87/663 | 336 | 32 |
June 2024 | 98/681 | 320 | 20 |
May 2024 | 99/682 | 379 | 13 |
April 2024 | 93/687 | 406 | 9 |
March 2024 | 99/694 | 398 | 13 |
February 2024 | 109/687 | 301 | 13 |
January 2024 | 99/691 | 390 | 11 |
Unsuccessful Installs
Unsuccessful Installs in the last 7 Days: 2
Count | Error Message |
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2 | Cannot continue the operation. There is another install operation in progress. |
Reviews Add new review
Please add support for New Eclipse Version 2019
Submitted by Nitish Gondkar on Mon, 02/03/2020 - 03:17
Currently, it supports only till Eclipse Photon. Please add support for new Eclipse
Re: Please add support for New Eclipse Version 2019
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 02/03/2020 - 09:14
In reply to Please add support for New Eclipse Version 2019 by Nitish Gondkar
This marketplace entry supports Eclipse up to version 2019-06. As noted in the descripted, this feature is part of the Eclipse platform itself from Eclipse 2019-09 and beyond and therefore is automatically included in every Eclipse install. But the keyboard shortcut has changed slightly, so make sure you keep Alt pressed in addition to the old shortcut when executing.
include derived resources
Submitted by Constantin Rascanu on Tue, 01/21/2020 - 03:54
hi
will there be added an option to include "derived resources"?
is there a way to compile quick search plugin?
thank you. great plugin.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=559238
Re: include derived resources
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 05:30
In reply to include derived resources by Constantin Rascanu
As far as I can see, you (or someone else) already filed a bug item to implement support for derived resources. So follow-up questions reagrding that bug should happen as part of that bug item as comments in bugzilla.
With regards to your question about "compiling" the plugin, you can check out the source code of the Eclipse platform project and compile the projects in your workspace for sure, but I am not sure what you are trying to achieve. You should ask that question with more details what you would like to do in the bugzilla entry, too.
Thanks!!!
RegEx support
Submitted by Mr Cricket on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 08:59
Thanks for the plugin!
Do you plan to support RegEx search?
Re: RegEx support
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 05:27
In reply to RegEx support by Mr Cricket
This festure is now part of the Eclipse platform project, so questions and feature requests should be filed against that project. Thanks!!!
Plugin not compatible with eclipse version 2019-09 R (4.13.0)
Submitted by Satheesh Balu on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 05:56
Hello,
Am a fan of Quick search plugin and without that am losing my features.
I installed newer version of eclipse (Build id: 20190917-1200) with version Version: 2019-09 R (4.13.0).
When I tried to install a quick search plugin. It says, incompatible with your eclipse version.
Re: Plugin not compatible with eclipse version 2019-09 R
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 11/04/2019 - 08:12
In reply to Plugin not compatible with eclipse version 2019-09 R (4.13.0) by Satheesh Balu
Great to hear that you love this feature. As noted in the New and Noteworthy of Eclipse 2019-09, the Quick Text Search got contributed to the Eclipse platform, so there is no need anymore to install it separately (and that is also the reason why the marketplace entry is not available anymore for the 2019-09 version of Eclipse): https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.13/platform.php#quick-text-search
Please note that the keyboard shortcut has changed, so you might need to re-train your muscle memory a bit to get adjusted to this contributed version of the quick search.
Re: Re: Plugin not compatible with eclipse version 2019-09 R
Submitted by Nitish Gondkar on Mon, 02/03/2020 - 03:19
In reply to Re: Plugin not compatible with eclipse version 2019-09 R by Martin Lippert
Thank you so much for providing this info and plugin... it's the most valuable feature in the eclipse
How long can we have this on 2019-9
Submitted by Dale Sun on Mon, 10/28/2019 - 23:23
How long can we have this on 2019-9
Re: How long can we have this on 2019-9
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 10/29/2019 - 08:13
In reply to How long can we have this on 2019-9 by Dale Sun
Not sure what you mean. This is part of the Eclipse platform now and therefore ships with every Eclipse distribution, including the 2019-09 release.
Re: Re: How long can we have this on 2019-9
Submitted by Dale Sun on Sun, 11/03/2019 - 21:39
In reply to Re: How long can we have this on 2019-9 by Martin Lippert
sorry, my bad, I mean I can't install this plugin on 2019-9.
so I wanna know how soon?
Re: Re: Re: How long can we have this on 2019-9
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 11/04/2019 - 08:16
In reply to Re: Re: How long can we have this on 2019-9 by Dale Sun
As said, the feature is now part of the Eclipse platform itself, so it is part of every single Eclipse package automatically: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.13/platform.php#quick-text-search - please note that the keyboard shortcut has slightly changed though.
Now part of Eclipse base from STS 4.4.0 / Eclipse 4.13 onwards
Submitted by Adam D on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 09:24
Default shortcut key is now Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L (note the extra Alt key now )
If having trouble undating inplace remove Quick Search from Help->About->Installation Details->Installed Software| [find it] -> Uninstall. restart. Then upgrades should work.
Quick Search broken in Eclipse Version: 2019-06 (4.12.0)
Submitted by Stefan Schlosser on Thu, 07/25/2019 - 04:05
Thank you for this great tool. Unfortuently it seems to be broken in Eclipse Version: 2019-06 (4.12.0).
It now looks like:
Path:
all files with the searched keyword
Window:
line with the searched keyword of the marked file above.
I already tried reinstall quick search without luck. Can you please fix this?
Thanks in advance.
Re: Quick Search broken in Eclipse Version: 2019-06 (4.12.0)
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 03:48
In reply to Quick Search broken in Eclipse Version: 2019-06 (4.12.0) by Stefan Schlosser
Can you be more specific about what exactly is broken? (maybe a screenshot, if this is layout-related)
This plugin is really a big
Submitted by Stefan Pachner on Fri, 11/23/2018 - 03:41
This plugin is really a big help. I use them many times a day. I only miss sometimes a search option for whole words. I would highly appreciate when somebody would add this feature.
regards
spachner
Re: This plugin is really a big
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Wed, 01/23/2019 - 06:51
In reply to This plugin is really a big by Stefan Pachner
Sorry for the late reply, sounds indeed like a quite useful feature for the quick search. I added this as a comment to this enhancement request: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues/185
Great Tool. Thanks a Lot!
Submitted by Uditha Perera on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 02:37
Great Tool. Thanks a Lot!
This helps to keep the love with Eclipse IDE.
Re: Great Tool. Thanks a Lot!
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 08:33
In reply to Great Tool. Thanks a Lot! by Uditha Perera
Thanks for the nice feedback, great to hear that you like it !!!
unable to use quicksearch in eclipse mars
Submitted by Jackie Li on Fri, 07/14/2017 - 06:40
eclipse version: MARS 4.5.0 quick search version:3.8.4
Installed successful from Marketplace, but ‘ctrl + shift + L ’ doesn't work, and can't find quick search under preferences.
Please take a look, thanks!
Re: unable to use quicksearch in eclipse mars
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Wed, 07/19/2017 - 04:23
In reply to unable to use quicksearch in eclipse mars by Jackie Li
I tried to install Quick Text Search into a fresh Mars.2 JEE package of Eclipse and it seems to work fine. The shortcut is "Cmd-Shift-L", btw, not "Ctrl-Shift-L" (but that also might depend on the platform). If it still doesn't work, we need to take a deeper look at why this doesn't work on your end. The best first step would be to open the Preferences -> General -> Keys" and search for the "Quick Search Command". It that appears in the list, the install seemed to work just fine (and it shows your platform-specific shortcut). In that case maybe there is a conflicting keyboard shortcut defined, so that something else gets executed when you press that shortcut. In that case you can look for another command in that list with the same shortcut and re-define the shortcut for the Quick Text Search to something else, for example.
Installed successfully
Submitted by Zhassulan Tokbayev on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 22:33
Thank you very much Martin!
Not able to use Quick Search on Mars (Eclipse 4.5)
Submitted by GANESH RAJULADEVI on Wed, 08/31/2016 - 17:59
I have installed Quick Search for Eclipse 3.8.1.RELEASE on Eclipse 4.5. However after installation, Cmd+Shift+L doesn't get the Quick Search option for searching in the files. Is there a new version of Quick Search which is compatible with Eclipse 4.5?
The latest version of the
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 05:53
In reply to Not able to use Quick Search on Mars (Eclipse 4.5) by GANESH RAJULADEVI
The latest version of the quick search plugin is compatible with Eclipse Mars, so something seems to go wrong with or after the installation. Someone else reported a similar problem, so I think we need to investigate this a bit deeper. Please open a bug report at https://github.com/spring-projects/eclipse-integration-commons/issues or https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS (whatever you prefer), so that we can continue the discussion over there and ask for more details. Thanks!!!
unable to use quicksearch in eclipse mars
Submitted by Mayur Malpani on Mon, 08/29/2016 - 11:39
i installed spring quicksearch on eclipse mars , but i do not get any option in eclipse >> preferences for the plugin.however it shows plugin as installed in eclipse marketplace. could you please help :-(
I tried this myself quickly,
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 08/30/2016 - 10:17
In reply to unable to use quicksearch in eclipse mars by Mayur Malpani
I tried this myself quickly, used a vanilla Eclipse Mars.2 JEE package and installed the quick search plugin via the marketplace without any issues. The preference page "Quick Search" is showing up as well as the quick search dialog itself (after hitting the keystroke). Version 3.8.1 was showing up while installing the plugin. Did you install that version? And what happens if you try again with a fresh Eclipse install (trying to isolate the problem here)?
following are the versions
Submitted by Mayur Malpani on Wed, 08/31/2016 - 11:03
In reply to I tried this myself quickly, by Martin Lippert
following are the versions
Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Mars Release (4.5.0)
Build id: 20150621-1200
Quick Search Tool
Quick Search for Eclipse 3.8.1
When I install this i do not get any options about quick search in preferences , is there any prerequiste of STS tool for this to work.
So something seems to go
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 05:54
In reply to following are the versions by Mayur Malpani
So something seems to go wrong with or after the installation. Someone else reported a similar problem (see above), so I think we need to investigate this a bit deeper. Please open a bug report at https://github.com/spring-projects/eclipse-integration-commons/issues or https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS (whatever you prefer), so that we can continue the discussion over there and ask for more details. Thanks!!!
How can i add associated files?
Submitted by Vikas Goyal on Tue, 05/17/2016 - 02:23
I have a java project that i'm currently working on. Plug in works great on java search, but doesn't seem to be working on javascript files. Any way i can add associations?
The quick text search should
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Sat, 05/21/2016 - 08:33
In reply to How can i add associated files? by Vikas Goyal
The quick text search should look inside JavaScript files by default. You can EXCLUDE certain types of files and specific folder names (and you can configure that yourself in the preferences), but all the other files are searched by default. Maybe your JavaScript files are inside one of those folders that are not searched?
quick search works fine in eclipse Mars 4.5
Submitted by ilan keshet on Fri, 02/05/2016 - 07:05
the bug mentioned the comment below does not reproduce.
working with:
unusable in Eclipse Mars
Submitted by Alex Mising name on Mon, 09/28/2015 - 17:35
This is a very good plugin. I've got used to it, but in new version it has a very annoying bug: when I try to find something in project, the "Matching items" list shows the same text and path many times (instead of displaying appropriate text and path for every result).
for example
line | Text | Path
| test | file 1 - /path/to/file 1
| test | file 1 - /path/to/file 1
| test | file 1 - /path/to/file 1
| test | file 1 - /path/to/file 1
Instead of:
line | Text | Path
12 | test | file 1 - /path/to/file 1
23 | test 123 | file 2 - /path/to/file 2
34 | dddd test | file 3 - /path/to/file 3
14 | test3 | file 4 - /path/to/file 4
Please fix it.
Looks like you filed this
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 04:20
In reply to unusable in Eclipse Mars by Alex Mising name
Looks like you filed this against the STS issuetracker as well, which is good. Here is the reference:
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-4221
The problem looks like a duplicate of this one:
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-4159
which is fixed for the upcoming 3.7.1 release. So stay tuned, should be out next week.
Can the default key binding of QuickSearch be customized?
Submitted by Jan Poganski on Sat, 11/29/2014 - 05:53
Thanks for the great plug-in! I really like it and would like to add it to a customized Eclipse product. Can the key binding be redefined (not by the end user but e.g. in plugin_customization.ini)? The end user can redefine the key binding via the preference dialog in order to resolve the conflict with Key Assist. What I am looking for is a chance to set the default preference to key binding which is different from Ctrl + Shift + L.
cannot use it.. :(
Submitted by Thomas Rädel on Fri, 05/16/2014 - 08:45
An internal error occurred during: "QuickSearch".
Java heap space
I have 12 projects in my workspace, nothing unusual. Everything else I work on runs without causing any problems.
It doesnt matter what text I´m searching, I get that error in any case.
There is also no difference between Luna M7 and Kepler.
update: setting -Xmx1024m in
Submitted by Thomas Rädel on Tue, 05/20/2014 - 03:57
In reply to cannot use it.. :( by Thomas Rädel
update: setting -Xmx1024m in eclipse.ini file helped. Now it works fine and I love it :)
great to hear that and glad
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 04:21
In reply to update: setting -Xmx1024m in by Thomas Rädel
great to hear that and glad you like it !!!
Dialog box?
Submitted by Harold Barber on Tue, 12/17/2013 - 14:46
I think having search in a pop-up dialog box is a really bad idea and reminds me of search in old versions of Microsoft Word. Having search inline as a tab allows for an easy workflow as you aren't blocking anything and constantly moving around a dialog box. Instasearch is inline, and would be a really good search extension if it allowed for exact matches and case sensitive searches. I'm still looking for the holy grail of search in eclipse but unfortunately I don't think it exists yet.
should not be modal window
Submitted by Paul Verest on Tue, 12/31/2013 - 02:05
In reply to Dialog box? by Harold Barber
The dialog should not be modal https://github.com/spring-projects/eclipse-integration-commons/issues/6
Very powerfull
Submitted by Martin Pernollet on Wed, 12/11/2013 - 11:14
Really helps to find text in a software. Easier and faster than existing text search (results appear in real time)
Highly recommended.
Should be part of standard distribution.
Think again about key binding.
Submitted by Paul Verest on Wed, 08/07/2013 - 02:09
Works great! However it is the same binding Ctrl+Shif+L as standard "View all keyboard shortcuts", that I find useful.
http://help.eclipse.org/juno/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.do…
Self solved
Submitted by Paul Verest on Mon, 01/06/2014 - 20:44
In reply to Think again about key binding. by Paul Verest
Ctrl+Shift+L shows Quick Search
Ctrl+Shift+L twice shows list of shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+L 3 times shows Preferences > General > Keys
works great!
Submitted by Rafael Chaves on Thu, 07/11/2013 - 14:49
This should be part of the Eclipse platform, it blows the regular text search feature out of the water. Installed it both on STS and vanilla Eclipse.