Hello, I'm trying to add to Navigate | Go to File... the options of also searching the file path, not just the file name.
This is useful when you know the package and part of the name or when you have the same file in multiple packages and want to quickly filter somehow. There's also an issue about this https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222697 since 2012! My work so far is on this branch https://github.com/emilianbold/incubator-netbeans/tree/emi-goto-file-folder-search-222697 A prototype demo video is at https://vimeo.com/235834852 I have a few unknowns here. org.netbeans.modules.jumpto.file.Worker uses 3 'strategies': * PROVIDER, via ProviderStrategy ProviderStrategy needs a FileProvider to do the actual searching via computeFiles(Context context, Result result). Only cnd.gotodeclaration seems to implement this. I seems to me I should not worry about ProviderStrategy. * INDEX, via IndexStrategy This is OK. At index-level (see FileIndexer) I'm adding the path in an index pair. Then I use that in IndexStrategy. * FS, via FSStrategy FSStrategy seems less important because most relevant files (.java, etc) will be indexed. Still, it does cover project.xml and other non-indexed files. My code seems to work with the existing NameMatcher by just toggling based on a flag: > matcher.accept(request.isSearchByFolders() ? file.getPath() : > file.getNameExt()) Finally, there's the matter of the UI. I have added a new checkbox now "Search by Folders" but I don't really see it as necessary. It might be better to just expect a forward slash (/) in the search text and toggle the flag based on that! No file name has a '/' on any usual filesystem so it can't match anything. Plus, it would seem odd to me to match the whole patch based on a regexp and not have a part for the folder and a separate part for the file. (I mean `*name*.xml` would match folders with `name` in it plus files with `name`). Feedback welcome! --emi
