Is it possible to dock the "Find/Replace" window in Eclipse?

Question

I could have sworn I saw it once before in a screencast where someone had the find/replace window docked in their Eclipse environment.

However looking through the list of options in "Window > Show" the closest thing I can find is the Search window.

I find that I use it quite a bit and with larger monitors these days I figure I could afford to have it open in my perspective all the time.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Answer 1

One poor-man's workaround is to dock a view that you don't need in a part of Eclipse where you want the find/replace view and then place the find/replace dialog on top of that like this:

Clearly this is a huge kludge but it does work.

Answer 2

I am not sure about that, since Fast views are:

icons allowing users to quickly display different views that have been created as fast views

And the search/replace is a Dialog, not a View..

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(That Dialog box is not like Views, which support editors, also have their own menus. Some views also have their own toolbars.)

The help page mentions:

Fast views are hidden views that can be quickly opened and closed. They work like other views except they do not take up space in your Workbench window.

Answer 3

This might not be an exact answer for the question. But this works like a charm.

• Press ctrl + j and keep typing...
• Use ctrl + k to go on
• Use shift key wherever required.

Use Edit > Incremental Find Next (Ctrl+J) or Edit > Incremental Find Previous (Ctrl+Shift+J) to enter the incremental find mode, and start typing the string to match. Matches are found incrementally as you type. The search string is shown in the status line. Press Ctrl+J or Ctrl+Shift+J to go to the next or previous match. Press Enter or Esc to exit incremental find mode.