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POHow to find Eclipse projects & folders by name?
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copied!<p>Is there a way to search for folders/projects by name in the Eclipse workspace?</p> <p>The results would best be returned in a view where I can do bulk operations (like closing, opening, assign working set). It's just to fiddly to manually click through the list of hundreds of projects.</p> <hr> <p>This seemingly trivial task is causing grief to me, which I find embarrassing after all my Eclipse years.</p> <p>I have tried:</p> <ol> <li>Search dialogs (Ctrl+H) - among the multitude of options, I don't find anything that would actually select folders or projects (only files) <ul> <li>Open Resources(Ctrl+R), looks handier than the dialogs, but again: only file search. BTW, why isn't that called "Open File"? resource can normally be a folder too, right?</li> <li>use filtering in the package/project explorer.. But that only supports filtering things out - no way to keep only things matching a pattern</li> <li>can Working Sets be set up in a dynamic way? (given search criteria, rather than fixed assignment in a fiddly dialog). EDIT: this is the winning option, see below.</li> </ul></li> </ol> <p>Did I miss something? Maybe a 3rd party plugin that gives sane searching for anything? Would (Eclipse/GroovyMonkey) scripting help with this? Mylyn? Is this too much to ask for, from a such mature environment?</p> <p>I have kindly asked this on Eclipse forums, and they kindly answered "<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&S=7b907ad69598505c4a8bf70ebaf6bd40&th=157796&goto=498150#msg_num_2" rel="noreferrer">No</a>" :) As usual, I have more confidence in SO folks, and would be grateful for ideas.</p> <hr> <p>And the -current- winner is Scott's excellent <a href="http://code.google.com/p/javadude/wiki/DynamicWorkingSets" rel="noreferrer">dynamic working sets</a> plugin, which exactly implements the option 4 above!</p>

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