Open Resource

This dialog allows you to browse the workbench for a file to open in an editor

• Select an item to open: In this field, type a few characters of the name of the file you want to select. By default, the input pattern is searched anywhere in the file name and with the exception of "Camel case" pattern (see below), the search is case-insensitive.

  The following pattern kinds are supported:

  
  Wildcards:
  
  • "*" for any string and "?" for any character
  • leading ">" to force matching from the start, e.g. ">rea" to match README.txt, but not creators.txt
  • terminating "<" or " " (space) to force matching at the end, e.g. "M*file<" to match Makefile and xMockFile, but not xMockFiles
  Camel case:
  
  • "CS" for file names containing "C" and "S" as upper-case letters in camel-case notation, e.g. CreateStuff.java
  • "CreSNo" for file names containing "Cre", "S", and "No" as parts in camel-case notation, e.g. CreateStuffNow.jsp
  • leading ">" to force matching from the start, e.g. ">CreS" to match CreateStuff.java, but not DoCreateStuff.java
  • terminating "<" or " " (space) to fix the number of camel-case parts, e.g. CreS<" to match CreateStuff.java, but not CreateStuffNow.jsp nor Createstuff.txt
  Folder prefixes:
  

  Both pattern kinds also support folder prefixes. If the pattern contains a /, the part before the last / is used to match a path in the workspace, e.g. "org.eclipse.ui/plugin.xml".
  Or a bit more complex: "*/ui</pack*.html" matches e.g. files called "package.html" in a folder named "ui" (but not in folders like "uitools" or "*/ui/internal").

  
  Relative paths:
  

  For example, "./Mak" matches all files which have "Mak" in their name and are in the folder of the active editor or selection, while "../Mak" matches such files in the parent folder.

  
  
• Matching items: This list displays matches for the pattern you type in the Select an item to open field.
  • Recently opened files show up in a history section at the top of the list.
  • If the pattern matches many files with the same name, the files that are closer to the currently edited or selected resource are shown on top of the matching items list.

The Open button opens the file with the default editor for the chosen file. A different editor can be selected in the context menu on a file or in the Open With drop-down button.

The Show In drop-down button can be used to show the chosen file in a view.

The behavior of the Open Resource dialog can be further customized using the dialog menu:

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