Quick Search add group minimize / restore

[MisterScott]

When multiple Quick Search windows are open, they will obscure whatever pane they are over. Currently they must be minimized or moved individually. Please add a way to minimize / restore all Quick Search windows, as a group, in one operation. Please allow multiple windows with the same search term to exist and remain open (often I need to keep old search results AND find new search results).

Currently using: Eclipse IDE for Embedded C/C++ Developers (includes Incubating components)

Version: 2022-06 (4.24.0) Build id: 20220609-1112 With QuickSearch plugin: Eclipse.org Quick Search 1.1.300.v20211203-1705 org.eclipse.text.quicksearch

[mickaelistria]

would you be willing to submit a pull request that changes that?

[elsazac]

@MisterScott How, in your expectation, the user should control these windows? Is it through a top level menu item or a keyboard shortcut combination or something else?

[MisterScott]

@elsazac I don't think the exact method matters, so long as it is supported. I would guess that a keyboard shortcut could be attached to the action, however it seems important that (if the search windows all disappear) there be a findable way to re-expand them.
As ideas, possible methods for group control include (but are not limited to):

• Quick Search menu item, perhaps "Quick Search Control"?
• Icon at top right of the search windows
• A Quick Search control group of icons

I would like to see the search term in the Quick Search window header; if I keep a number of them open, they pile up and hide each other, and are anonymous.

I would love to have a command that opens a (sorted by timestamp, optionally sorted alphabetically) list of search terms.

Thank you!

[MisterScott]

@mickaelistria Once I get started in Eclipse platform development. I know Java, however health and family issues have made taking on another learning curve difficult.

[MisterScott]

The specific issues to solve, and proposed solutions:

Quick Search windows obstruct the screen; want to quickly hide / restore them, en-masse or individually. Ideas:

1. Minimize All / Restore All buttons
2. Cascade option (with undo)? Not my favorite.
3. Pulldown list to restore a selected Quick Search window

With many Quick Search windows open, finding the one of interest. Ideas:

1. A pulldown list of the windows (accessible from any QS window)
2. List sort options: by alphabetical (beginning of string), alphabetical (end of string), length, timestamp opened
3. Minimize All / Restore All / Show as List: pulldown list allows selecting a single Quick Search window to select and restore

No search-term history. Ideas:

1. A pulldown list, same as the other Search windows have, including up/down arrows