Project-wide find and replace in NetBeans 6

I am so glad to notice that NetBeans 6 (development build) now supports project-wide find and replace. See my previous post about this bug that plagued NetBeans since 2001. This bug fix is long overdue, but it's great to see NetBeans now has the real find-replace.

So in NetBeans 6, I can click on a project node, or package node, or any directory node in my project, and find. The pop-up window lets you specify the replacement string and options (case-sensitive, match whole word, regular expression, etc).

What's really nice is, it then opens up output windows where you can review, select, and de-select matches for replace:

Tags: java, NetBeans, find+replace, Java IDE, IDE