Make Quick Search dialog not modal

[paulvi]

in Quick Search for Eclipse http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/quick-search-eclipse
please make dialog not modal (and not close by default),
just like Ctrl+F in Eclipse or MS Word.

Also could it have option to push results to Eclipse Search View ?

[fmjrey]

I also would enjoy it even more if it wasn't modal.

[kdvolder]

Also could it have option to push results to Eclipse Search View ?

That would be rather hard to do because it doesn't really use Eclipse search infrastructure. Besides the whole point of implementing it is because we don't like how the Eclipse search view displays results.

Making the dialog non-modal sounds like a good idea and is probably feasible. Maybe more of floating window that could be pinned down.

Problem is finding the time to work on this :-)

[kdvolder]

Thinking about implementing something that might be what you want (or not). If you have any thoughts on what you had in mind exactly and/or whether what I'm proposing to implement, feel free to comment here or on the Jira issue:
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-3989

[paulvi]

JIRA takes a 1-3 minutes to open in China

And don't know how to let Pivotal people know

similar to codenvy-legacy/sdk#45

[spudtheimpaler]

@kdvolder The Jira issue to which you linked can not be commented on, so I will comment here.

Personally I understand the downsides to modality, but for what this is used for I can't see a better alternative to use in a view. Personally I am happy for it to be left how it is.

[kdvolder]

We finally did this :-) But looks like we have this older issue still floating around.

See: spring-projects/sts4#189

[martinlippert]

This will ship as part of the upcoming STS 3.9.8 and STS 4.2.0 releases.