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The Open file menu item simply opens the system's open file dialog. At least on Lunux. That is quite unsatisfactory. The dialog should be a custom one for NetBeans. For instance: - Have open projects root dirs as shortcuts - Quick search for a pattern - Filter out files in build directories (e.g. target/) - Show recently used files (also outside open projects) in shortcuts and search results Thanks for considering.
Update: I've found the Go To File dialog. So that's what I was looking for. Only - I have never met this functionality - I accidentally found it in description of other bug. I strongly suggest to use this dialog instead of what appears now under File / Open File... . Or at least duplicate the link to this dialog in the File menu.
I'm updating the title, and suggest also these changes: Change in default shortcuts: Ctrl + O opens this dialog, Alt + Shift + O opens the system open file dialog (because, who needs that, really) Add an item to the File menu which opens this Make it list *.foo files even if omitting the * - .foo should be quite clear signal that the user looks for *.foo Thanks.
Another improvement: The dialog should support full paths relative to the project roots. Example: I want to paste this to the search field: reporting/api/pom.xml Which is a path to a file from the the root project's root directory. I expect the Go To File... dialog to behave like this: If there's a '/' in the searched term, show all files that are on such path from some open project's root path.
It needs to be done in the IDE UI. I just made the feature the binding to Open File or other action has to be done by UI.