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Eclipse Search - now with an Eclipse Plugin!
Posted On Mar 11, 2009 at by Prakash G.R.
Searching for Eclipse related material in Google is a painful task. It shows up lots of irrelevant results. With Eclipse Search, this was pretty much eliminated. It searches only our Eclipse related sites and provides relevant results. The results are even categorized into Blogs, Source, etc. To make things simple, I added a search plugin for the browsers. This helps to search help right from your search box of your browser. Still this has one problem - you need a browser to search. You need to copy & paste the class/method name from your Eclipse to Browser and start searching. Switch back to Eclipse and resume the work. Now this can be simplified by a search plugin for Eclipse.
When you open Search Page, you can see an Eclipse Search tab there. You don't even need to copy a text for searching - just a selection would do. The plug-in takes the current selection as the initial input. You can select the labels you want to search for and hit Enter. You get the results right there inside Eclipse itself:
The recent searches are available in the History Menu:
And in case want to switch to a browser from the current results:
Me and few of my team mates are using it regularly and find it very handy. Download and try it yourself.
Tired of unwanted and irrelevant results in Google? Try Eclipse Search, the Customized Seach Engine that gives you only relevant results - Powered by Google! It has plugins for Eclipse and Firefox/IE
this looks pretty handy! But when I tried it, I get a "page cannot be displayed" result. I opened the result in an external browser, but this domain: http://www.cypal.in/ gives me a server not found error. Is it just me?
thanks.
Yeah, you might be from a country where the dns entries for cypal.in are not resolved.
Can you map the dns entries in your OS (by updating the hosts file) for both www.cypal.in and cypal.in to ghs.google.com ?
More info on hosts file: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
It seems this plug-in works only on windows ... Am I right ?
Would it be possible to have a Linux version ?
many Thanks
Manu
It doesn't depend on Windows and should work the same way in all OS.
Ok. Here is the error message I have:
Unhandled event loop exception
XPCOM error -2147467259
have you got an idea ??
Since when toggleCommandState is a method in HandlerUtil? Sorry, but I can not find it.
@Roman,
The API should be available from 3.5 M6
How do you install this plugin once the jar is downloaded?
aren't you supposed to provide a feature subfolder along with the plugin jar?
@Anoymous,
Just place the file in the dropins folder
thanks for the quick reply:
once you place the file in the dropins folder, what else do i need to do to see the search in eclipse?
Click Search->Search or Ctrl+H Select the Eclipse Search tab
I don't see any eclipse search tab in the search window (only file, java and plug-in).
I'm using 3.4.2, does that matter?
Probably. The source is available there, you can checkout; create the deployable plugin and use it yourself.