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Provide user interface for fast filtering of the project views and searching by directory/file/logical object name. Filtering will be very useful in cases when there are potentially long flat lists of objects, such as list of Java packages in the logical project view, or list of EJBs and web services in the logical view of J2EE projects. To some extent, it may also be useful in the Files view of projects. This could be implemented in a similar way as in Mozilla, where the Bookmarks window in browser, and the messages window in Mail, have a textfield at the top, where the user can type in the string by which the view will be filtered. Originally requested by Ludo Champenois.
With more project types this issue needed more and more. We were already asked by few users whether is is possible to filter out some nodes from Logical View of Ruby projects. Are there any plans for the next release? (no comment here for cca 3 year).
I believe this issue has been partially fixed by project groups (File>Project Groups) and by possibility to filter out some files (see Tools>Options>Miscellaneous>Files, Files Ignored By IDE). Also, you can use quick search on project nodes. Making this as WONTFIXED, noting this issue is fixed to some extent.