Expand only one level in Eclipse search results - eclipse

I'm searching in Eclipse and getting multi results on multiple modules.
When results returns I have option to Expand All.
Also option to expand a module using * key
But sometimes I need "high level expanding", just seeing the relevant classes or relevant packages in all modules without seeing the specific code lines.
I expected to open one level at a time.
I didn't find such option, is it achievable somehow? Can this requirements be added as an enhancement to Eclipse?

Opened an enhancement Bug 547752 - Add option expand one level at a time in search results
You can vote for it.
I gave 2 options for showing folders relevant to search:
First option is to open one level at a time on every click
Second option is to open all folders not including files in one click
First option is longer to get specific packages/folders
Second option is just open the packages/folders level of relevant files

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Is it possible to force Quick Open to take a query from the current selection in the editor?

The current editor I have open contains the name of a file or part of the name of a file that I have in my workspace. I want to search for that file by selecting the text of that name from the editor, and then putting that text in the Quick Open search box. Currently, I need to manually copy and paste the text, but I want to have behaviour similar to the cmd + F search box where the selected text from the editor immediately appears in the search bar when it is opened. Is it possible to configure Quick Open to do this as well? Or maybe there is an extension for this?
At the time of this writing, this is currently not configurable.
If you look in the settings, all the settings that allow enabling or disabling this behaviour contain the word "seed" in them: search.seedOnFocus, search.seedWithNearestWord, editor.find.seedSearchStringFromSelection. From my reading/searching, there is no other setting with the word "seed" in it.
I googled "github vscode issues quickopen seed" and found this GitHub feature-request on the VS Code GitHub repo: Fuzzy quick open should use selected text as a starting point #59957 asking for such behaviour to be the default behaviour. The issue didn't get enough support from other users to get added to their backlog (a feature request needs to get a certain number of thumbs up reactions from users within a certain time period after it is created to get considered for implementation), so that feature-request is now closed.
If you want to get such a configuration option, create a feature-request issue ticket. If you want to increase your feature-request's visibility (and therefore its chance of getting enough user support), share a link to it on various programming platforms such as r/vscode.
I didn't find any extensions that do this by googling "vscode marketplace quick open seed" and looking at the top results, but maybe you'll have better luck with different queries.

VSCode Filter Problems tab for currently opened file only

I'm looking for a linter feature like-atom that shows the problems by either line, file or project.
Is it possible to filter the Problems tab to only show the errors and warnings in the file being visualized or in the files opened in different tabs instead of from the entire project?
VSCode v.1.23 added the ability to filter the Problems panel by files, see problems view filtering in the release notes.
So you can include (or exclude via the usual glob negation !) only a certain file by entering its name (you may need only a part of it). The filtering is done only within opened tabs however. So you cannot get the entire workspace's problems listed when only some of its files are opened.
The ability to filter the problems panel by the current file has been added to the Insider's Build just recently (#mid-November 2019) so should be in the November 2019 update.. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/30038 and https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_41.md#problems-panel
More predefined filters are added to the Problems panel. You can now
filter problems by type and also see problems scoped to the current
active file.
The feature you describe is not currently in VSCode, (I miss it too having got used to it in Eclipse)
There is an open issue with VSCode for this:
Show problems only for currently active file / active line #30038

How I can organize run configuration in Eclipse?

In Eclipse, I have organize my favorite "run configurations" but I have a lot of favorite.
So I would like to know if a plugin exists that permit to create folders or sub-lists to have a better view and organization of my run configurations.
I would like this because when I click on the "arrow" near "Run" button on the top of the Eclipse toolbar I have a very long list and it's diffuclt to find quickly the "run configuration" that I want.
I hope somebody have an idea and can help me.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Arnaud
There are some ways to help a little bit:
If you are more interested in the last started run configurations, these get a number. Number 1 is the last, number 2 the previous before and so on.
Press ALT-SHIFT-X followed by the type of run configuration (j for Java), and you get a list of run configurations. Type in the filter box, and select by cursor keys.
Under Run > Organize Favorites ... you have the option to mark some of them as the ones you want to use often. These will listed at the top of the selection list then.
Run configurations... > Filtering Preferences... will open the preferences where you are able to define which filter should be used for the run configurations. If you use Working Sets in your programming, this could be helpful, so by switching Working Set, the run configurations come with it.
I think the keyboard shortcut is the fastest one if you want to use the run configurations all. If there is a special order, the first tip by be sufficient. If your context changes, and the run configurations should change as well, use the working sets.
I'm a bit late, however it might help future readers.
Well, if you want to manage your Run Configurations I would recommend you Eclipse Runner plugin.
I hope that helps.
I don't know of any plugin that does that, but in Eclipse the chosen run configuration if you hit the run button is the last one ran. Which is what you'll need most of the time, typically. Otherwise you can just go inside the menu, where all configurations are grouped by type and choose from there, that might take a couple more seconds but maybe is not so confusing.
One way to do it is to save the run configurations as "Stored Files" in various project directories. This doesn't require saving or loading manually, you just select "Shared file" in the "Common" tab and set it to a project directory.
When you open or close one of these "Projects" (even if that project contains nothing but run configurations) it will show/hide those configurations.
I'm currently considering creating some "Fake" projects just to hold launcher groups.

Search in particular Eclipse project

Is there any way to specify a project, where you want to search?
It's been annoying me for a long time. Like when I hit Ctrl+H to search, the only scopes available are:
Workspace
Selected resources
Enclosing projects
Working set
So, the only 3 ways I see to perform a search in particular projects are:
Open a file from the required project, hit Ctrl+H and choose Enclosing projects scope
Add required project to Working set, and perform search on this set.
Select a project in Project Explorer and search in Selected resources
All of these methods are not always convenient.
Sometimes, I just want to manually specify projects, where the search is to be performed
Edit:
The last option is not good for 2 reasons:
1) I usually have "Link with editor" option on, which associates currently opened file with corresponding item in Project Explorer. Our project is quite large, so usually I would have to scroll all the way up to collapse the selected project to make others visible.
2) Also, Project Explorer is not reachable when I'm working in another perspective, such as Debug for example (I know I can add it through Window->Show View, but that just breaks the essence of perspectives).

How to search all open files in Eclipse?

Simple question: how do I search all the files currently open in Eclipse? Note: I don't wanna search all the files I have in that workspace, just the ones open in tabs. Is there an easy way to do this?
Closest way is selecting several resources in Navigator or Package Explorer view, then press Ctrl+H and choose 'Selected Resources' radio button. It will limit search only to selected files.
CTRL+E on Windows or Linux, and Command+E on OSX.
There's no way to do that at the moment.
The easiest solution would be to select your files manually (holding CTRL + click on file) and to specify "selected resources" as your search scope.
This may come too late for the original poster, but just in case somebody else needs to find out an answer, I had the same problem and found my solution by installing a plug-in named Instasearch. You can get it by going to Help/Eclipse Marketplace and searching for Instasearch.
You can find more about this plug-in in the following address.
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/instasearch
Spring produces a stand-alone Eclipse plugin (no dependencies on Spring) called Quick Search
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/quick-search-eclipse
For efficiency, it searches your open files first. So while it isn't purely restricting to opened files as you requested, you can still get a similar effect in practice by just clicking the first results that come up.
The currently opened files simply aren't considered special in eclipse - you have far more advanced methods of organizing your files: projects and working sets.
Working sets allow you to define sets of files, which can be used as constraints for many operations. You have to define them explicitly, but then they don't change just because you've closed a file.
There is no find-in-open-files command in Eclipse, no.
I think that the main reason find-in-open-files is not implemented in Eclipse is probably because the set of open files is for many users rather insignificant. (In fact, I don't know (or care) which files I have open. (I even have Eclipse set to automatically close editors/files when they become too many). If I want to navigate to a file, I open it. Limiting a search to the files I currently have open would be completely pointless for me.)