Searching Made Easy in NetBeans 7.2
Search using NetBeans IDE (using Ctrl-F for “Find” or Ctrl-H for “Replace”), you see the Search Results window, which looks like this:
At least, the above is how it looks in NetBeans IDE 7.2. Before that, you didn’t have all those extra columns (which can be displayed in the Search Results window after clicking the small button top right in the view) and you also didn’t have the quick search (which is invoked by typing directly into the Search Results window), like in below screenshot :
So, the Search Results window now provides a lot more info than before. Being able to know the path to a file I’ve found, as well as the last modification date, file size, and the number of matches within the file, is useful at the end of a search process.
