eclipse-instasearch

InstaSearch is an Eclipse IDE plug-in for performing quick and advanced search of workspace files. It indexes files using Lucene and keeps the index up to date automatically. The search is performed instantly as-you-type and resulting files are displayed in an Eclipse view.

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.

Use  

Once InstaSearch is successfully installed, you'll see a nice little "InstaSearch" search tab appear at the bottom

Search Tips  

Lucene query syntax can be used for searching. This includes:

• Wildcard searches
  • app* initialize
• Excluding words
  • application -initialize
• Fuzzy searches to find similar matches
  • application init~
• Limit by location - directory, projects or working set
  • proj:MyProject,OtherProject  application  init
  • ws:MyWorkingSet  dir:src  init
• Limit by filename, extension or modification time
  • name:app*  ext:java,xml,txt  modified:yesterday  
• Search by file name initials (e.g. FOS to find FileOutputStream.java)
  • name:FOS