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Bug 12442 - save previous search strings entered in Find (Search Filesystems) dialog
Summary: save previous search strings entered in Find (Search Filesystems) dialog
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: utilities
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@utilities
URL:
Keywords: UI
: 33715 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 35255
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Reported: 2001-05-25 22:40 UTC by eakle
Modified: 2005-02-17 12:11 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description eakle 2001-05-25 22:40:43 UTC
(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.
Comment 1 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 17:26:28 UTC
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Comment 2 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:54:39 UTC
Set target milestone to TBD
Comment 3 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:56:43 UTC
Set target milestone to TBD
Comment 4 Marian Petras 2003-05-19 09:46:41 UTC
*** Issue 33715 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 Marian Petras 2003-05-19 09:48:33 UTC
Evan Adams has suggested in issue #33715 that the list of last used
strings is presented in a combo-box.
Comment 6 eakle 2003-12-02 02:53:39 UTC
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.
Comment 7 eakle 2003-12-02 03:00:40 UTC
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.
Comment 8 Marian Petras 2005-02-17 12:09:50 UTC
Done in NetBeans 4.1. History of search strings is shared with editor
Find dialog.
Comment 9 Marian Petras 2005-02-17 12:11:38 UTC
This is also a duplicate of issue #20371 ("Find in files could have
simple history").