Easy Console Grepper

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Solution Description

An easy to use grep console for Eclipse IDE with a handful of useful functions. Filter Strings or RegExp matches from any TextConsoles Highlights matches Use filter settings for each Grep Console Enable/disable filter per click Filter / search ranges of lines (useful for XML-content) Resume filtering after a console has been disposed and restarted (beta state, tested for Java and Ant Consoles) Re-filter on demand Preset support, save your filter settings, import and export them Exception Stacktrace hyperlink support Terminate process capability Show statistic data for current console (with update facility) ...

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Eclipse Versions: 2026-03 (4.39), 2025-12 (4.38), 2025-09 (4.37), 2025-06 (4.36), 2025-03 (4.35), 2024-12 (4.34), 2024-09 (4.33), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-03 (4.31), 2023-12 (4.30), 2023-09 (4.29), 2023-06 (4.28), 2023-03 (4.27), 2022-12 (4.26), 2022-09 (4.25), 2022-06 (4.24), 2022-03 (4.23), 2021-12 (4.22), 2021-09 (4.21), 2021-06 (4.20), 2021-03 (4.19), 2020-12 (4.18), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 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), Juno (4.2, 3.8), Previous to Juno (<=4.1)

Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK

Organization Name: Jens Pfahl

Development Status: Production/Stable

Date Created: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 16:30

License: EPL

Date Updated: Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 08:00

Submitted by: Jens Pfahl

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Thanks a lot!

Possible improvement (for me anyway) would be a small textfield to quickly type a filter and having the console clear&refresh as I type (I think the Android Logcat behaved like that, but not sure).

In reply to by Jeremy Philippe

Thanks for your proposal.
I'll think about that. But presumably this is not possible caused by the used RCP framework, where ECG is integrated in.
It is not possible to integrate textfields into a ToolBar :-(
But I could integrate a new "Clear&Refresh" button into the Grep Settings dialog.

I was able to get this working in 2 seconds, it works great. My issue is that as my program is running and generating logs, the original console pops to the foreground every time a new log is created, and I have to click the "Switch consoles" button to go back to my filtered view. Is there a way around this?

Additionally, instead of highlighting things that match, is there a way to simply omit things that don't?