From the course: Learning Eclipse
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Searching in Eclipse
- [Instructor] There are many times that when we might be working with a large scale application, we need to search content. And by default, many people tend to use the Find/Replace dialogue, which can be displayed by hitting Control + F. And while this might work for some of the times, there's a much more powerful search feature that can be used, and that's by using the Eclipse Search dialogue box, which you can bring up by holding the Control key down, and hitting H. This dialogue box takes a lot more into consideration that's related to the context that you're in. For example, if we are using the search file page, it allows you to search any type of file. But the Java Search page, focuses only on Java files. So for here, when we type in our content, if I type in, let's say, DateTime, I can specify if I want to search through types, a method, a constructor, a field, to the right hand side I could limit the search to all occurrences, just references, and below are some more options…
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