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macosx + jdk 1.4 build from 27/03/2005 after mounting the vcs filesystem (where root of the filesystem was the core module directory), I opened core project. Switched to Files explorer, rightclick on the root folder (Core) and Find... action is disabled.
Definitely not caused by VCS. In older NB build with up-to-date VCS modules Find *is* enabled. However, recently I've seen Find sometimes disabled, but several changes of selected nodes fixed this. I'll check it once again on an up-to-date build to be sure, but I'll very likely move this somewhere else...
Probably a bug of WinSys or the Find action... There does not seem to be a relation with VCS FS, when you switch from Editor (or any other mode) to the Explorer (directly right-click on the desired folder), the Find is disabled. Clicking on any other node and back solves the problem. Moving to search for evaluation, but the problem might be somewhere else.
It is possible that it would be a bug in search, indeed. I rewrote the enable/disable mechanism for the Find action just on Monday because it stopped working (see bug #56993 - "Find action on Project node in Projects View is disabled"). I am going to commit an enhanced code and then test it on another machine (MacOS machine).
Fixed in the trunk (I hope). I made a single change in the code such that I now put a *context-aware variant* of the Find action implementation into TopComponent's action maps. After I made the change, I tried to reproduce the bug on the reporter's machine but I am still not sure it is definitely fixed. If you are able to reproduce it with the new build, please leave me a note. Modified file: utilities/src/org/netbeans/modules/search/FindActionManager.java (1.7) Diff: http://utilities.netbeans.org/source/browse/utilities/src/org/netbeans/modules/search/FindActionManager.java?r1=1.6&r2=1.7&diff_format=u