Bug 73557 [Dialogs] Pattern matching changes Open Resource type-ahead behaviour
If I use the "Open Resource" dialog (Ctrl-Shift-r) and being typing, it lists matches as though there is an implicit '*' at the end. E.g. if I being typing "MyF", it will show "MyFunClass.java", "MyFoobar.java", etc. But if I add a '*' at the beginning, and start typing e.g. "*F", it doesn't show the same list of files. Instead, only anything ending with 'F' is shown. I've tried this with a couple of other expressions, and it seems that if any regular expression is used, the behaviour of the dialog changes -- there is no longer considered to be a '*' at the end. I think this is confusing behaviour. If I add a manually add a '*' at the end of my expression, and then begin typing before the '*', I get the behaviour that I would expect.
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.ide/extensions/org/eclipse/ui/dialogs/ResourceListSelectionDialog.java
currentResource = (IResource) current.resources.get(0);
                    }
                }
                descriptorsSize = index + 1;
            }
        });
    }
    /**
     * Returns true if the label matches the chosen pattern.
     * 
     * @param label label to match with the current pattern
     * @return true if the label matches the chosen pattern. 
     * 	false otherwise.
     */
    private boolean match(String label) {
        if ((patternString == null)
                || (patternString.equals("")) || (patternString.equals("*")))
            return true;
        return stringMatcher.match(label);
    }
    /**
     * The user has selected a resource and the dialog is closing.
     * Set the selected resource as the dialog result.
     */
    protected void okPressed() {
        TableItem items[] = folderNames.getSelection();
        if (items.length == 1) {
            ArrayList result = new ArrayList();
            result.add(items[0].getData());
            setResult(result);