Navigator with quick filter
Thursday, April 20th, 2006, 19:53:54 +0200, Gunnar WagenknechtOne new feature in 3.2 is the nice quick filter in the preferences dialog. This feature is very handy. Especially if you have a view with many elements and you are tired of collapsing and expanding them all again just to locate an element.
Actually, the implementation is very generic. I was able to created this little plug-in in less than 10 minutes. It adds a new Navigator view to Eclipse but this time with a quick filter. 
Give it a try. But be aware that this comes without any warranty and will have a noticable performance impact on large resource trees with many project and files.
April 20th, 2006 at 23:06
All 3.2 navigators will be ‘filterable’, right?
April 20th, 2006 at 23:07
A nice one! How about similar plugin for Package Explorer?
April 21st, 2006 at 00:00
@Sam: Well, it’s a complete new view. Just open it in every perspective you want it to use.
@Eu: This would be nice indeed, but I don’t want it to trigger the whole Java model. But the Navigator is public API and easy to extend.
May 2nd, 2006 at 16:06
Nice. Do you accepts request
? If so maybe you can add a combo to show only read-only files or writeable files or both. Maybe there is another way to do it but…
Thanks !
November 29th, 2006 at 09:32
Feel like sharing the source? Thanks!
November 29th, 2006 at 09:56
Hi Andi. I’m not sure if the source is included in the plug-in. However, it’s also available here.
Cu, Gunnar
May 18th, 2007 at 15:56
David has offered good idea and I would be grateful, if you have added such opportunity in your plugin. Thanks!
June 13th, 2007 at 17:25
Hey Gunnar! Thats an impressably useful Plugin, no matter how long it took you to code
. Thanks a lot, one of the Features I was so far missing from Basic Eclipse!
November 6th, 2009 at 04:18
you have no idea how useful this has been to me over the past few years!!
August 10th, 2011 at 20:36
Gunnar,
Well, I finally upgraded to 3.6.2 and started having weird issues with my workspace being corrupted. I couldn’t use EPIC and the CVS functions. I re-installed a billion times and finally it came down to this navigator withy quick filter. I left it out on my last install and everything works fine
It’s a huge bummer because I *LOVE* this plugin. It’s an essential part of my workflow. And I’m having a hard time without it! I also can’t find any other solutions on the internet like this. Any chance you’re going to update it to work with 3.6+ versions of eclipse?
August 10th, 2011 at 21:46
Rory, if time permits, maybe. I usually get along with CTRL+SHIFT+R these days. Sorry. BTW, the source is here.
August 18th, 2011 at 22:43
As it turns out, this filter is not the issue. It actually works fine with 3.6.2 and 3.7. I still haven’t found the root cause of the problem, but it still happens even when this isn’t installed, so it can’t be it! Sorry!