Question

In Eclipse, when I press Ctrl+Shift+R to bring up the ‘Open resource’ dialog window, I can’t figure out a way of searching only for javascript files (.js), as any search string I enter will always yield .jsp files as well.

I tried abc*.js (explicit file extension does not work, as still JSPs are returned), abc*.?? (trying to limit the length of extension to any TWO characters, still returns JSPs)… it’s a bit annoying. Is there any way to get the window to return .js files only?

Answer 1

Wow, I managed to resolve this myself. It doesn’t seem like the correct thing for Eclipse to do (naughty Eclipse, naughty, you should be ashamed of yourself) but it does work like a charm – it’s as simple as typing a <space> after the search term.

So, instead of searching for “abc*.js” (which would yield .jsp results also), one can just type in “abc*.js ” (followed by a space) and now only javascript files are presented in the results list. Voilà!