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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.

Ghosty
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    I too wish for this ability. I run in full-screen mode on a high-resolution monitor and find that I need to place the find/replace dialog on another monitor which is far from ideal. Other IDEs let you do this and I really like it. – Melinda Green Aug 26 '11 at 18:37
  • You can do this installing the plugin [Find Bar](https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/find-bar-eclipse "Find Bar for Eclipse"). ![Find Bar plugin](https://marketplace.eclipse.org/sites/default/files/styles/ds_solution_screenshot/public/FindReplaceBar.png) Once you enable the current Find/replace dialog overriding, it replaces the dialog by a view that allows to find text but does not replace text. The standard dialog is still accessible. – Fabrice TIERCELIN Mar 11 '14 at 20:21
  • There is this plugin [Glance](http://ystrot.github.io/glance/) which adds incremental search to the status bar (not a dockable view though) – laurie Sep 24 '09 at 21:13

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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:

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Clearly this is a huge kludge but it does work.

Melinda Green
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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

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

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(source: bpsite.net)

(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.

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VonC
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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.

smilyface
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