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(this is the dialog I see when I select a folder and then run popup menuitem "Find") The functionality of the Search Filesystems dialog is much improved, thanks! (see also IssueZilla #7294, most of which appears to be fixed). Something else that would help useability of this improved dialog: On the Full Text tab, in the Substring field, I wish this field could remember the last, say 5, search strings I entered here and let me choose one of them via a droplist, rather than me having to re-type it. I don't want to explicitly have to save anything and recall it later -- that's too complicated, and I'll probably forget to save it. My entering text in this field and pressing Search should be enough to get the string saved and made available later. You could do a similar feature for other fields (Regular Expression, or similar Object Name fields) and that would be handy sometimes too, but I believe that by far the most commonly used Previous-query droplist would be the one on Full Text / Substring.
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Set target milestone to TBD
*** Issue 33715 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Evan Adams has suggested in issue #33715 that the list of last used strings is presented in a combo-box.
Very common use case to try: search a source tree for all java files that contain a certain string (don't search all the files -- just the java files); also try searching a source tree for all bundle files that contain a certain string. Currently this is quite time- consuming to do in NB search, requiring quite a few mouse clicks as well as typing, but in comparison, is quite easy to do in the search provided by Windows Explorer.
suggested way to fix the problem described above: make it so I don't have to visit the Type tab to do this (list in that tab is hard to find types in because it is so long and not ordered by frequency-of- use). Instead, I would like to visit the Object Name tab only and type a Substring of "*.java" or "*.properties", in addition to the string I enter in the Full Text tab. That would be much faster to enter -- comparable to the effort required in Windows Explorer search. Currently if I type a string like *.java in the Object Name tab, then nothing is found.
Done in NetBeans 4.1. History of search strings is shared with editor Find dialog.
This is also a duplicate of issue #20371 ("Find in files could have simple history").