Faster search for files in Netbeans

Question

Is there an existing plugin or tweak that speeds up the \"Go To File\" search in Netbeans ? Compared to Eclipse, Netbeans search is way too slow specially if one has multiple la

Answer 1

How to quickly find a file/files in netbeans. Maybe for someone it will be helpful.

1. In Netbeans projects files view select some directory where you want to look for the file.
2. Click ctrl+f to show the finder dialog
3. Pass your file name into 'file name patterns' input
4. In options set only 'Regular expression'
5. The 'Containing text' input has to be empty