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Bug 259077 - Search box (in menu bar) should also search the file names in open projects
Summary: Search box (in menu bar) should also search the file names in open projects
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Quick Search (show other bugs)
Version: 8.1
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal (vote)
Assignee: Jaroslav Havlin
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Reported: 2016-04-30 23:57 UTC by pekarna
Modified: 2016-05-03 06:17 UTC (History)
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Description pekarna 2016-04-30 23:57:08 UTC 
The search functionality doesn't search for file names.
That's quite annoying if I have a project that uses templates (any kind of - Freemarker, HTML, ...) and I know the name, but have to click through the hierarchy and see the file. Or go to console and find -name *.ftl.

Could the search dialog return the list of files matching the pattern?
So I could e.g. write ".ftl" to the seach box and would get a list of all *.ftl files in the open projects (except in build directories like /target - optionally).

Thanks for considering.
Comment 1 Jaroslav Havlin 2016-05-02 09:27:44 UTC 
Hello,

it should work as you describe.

Please try CTRL+SHIFT+F (or CMD+SHIFT+F on Mac), the dialog contains field "File Name Patterns".
Comment 2 pekarna 2016-05-02 15:49:36 UTC 
Hello Jaroslav, I'm talking about the search box at the top right in the menu bar.
Comment 3 Jaroslav Havlin 2016-05-03 06:17:44 UTC 
Oh, I see, thank you.
I'm changing issue component.