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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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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.
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!
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.
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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Index Update blocks launcher
Submitted by Andreas Hoehmann on Wed, 2016-06-01 07:44
Nice plugin but if the indexer is running I can't start a launcher. Please fix this :)
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
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.
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!
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?
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
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.
very nice tool
Submitted by Saqib Awan on Sun, 2012-12-30 16:26
no doubt about it.
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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.
I like it
Submitted by Anonymous 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!