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From the documentation display you can also explicitly call the full text seach by selecting Extended Search:
ABAP Development: ABAP News for Release 7.50 - ABAP Keyword Documentation
Not so in ADT (Eclipse). In ADT the so called Web Version of the ABAP Keyword Documentation is used.
That's not the one you find in the portal but one that can be reached by an ICF service maintained in
transaction SICF and that you can also call with program ABAP_DOCU_WEB_VERSION (of course the
contents of all versions are the same, only the display and the functionality of the displays differ, with the
functionality of the ADT version coming closer and closer to the SAP GUI version).
Up to now, the Web Version used in ADT started with an index search and only switched to full text search if
nothing was found. With ABAP 7.50 you can call the full text search in the Web Version and in ADT explicitly.
Simply put double quotes around your search term:
So simple. Furthermore, you can continue searching in the hit list of an index search:
ABAP Development: ABAP News for Release 7.50 - ABAP Keyword Documentation
A piece of cake! Wonder why I had waited so long to implement it. The next one was harder.
After some complaints from colleagues (customers never complain, almost). I changed that and use another
format for markup characters from ABAP 750 on. Embedded expressions now:
ABAP Development: ABAP News for Release 7.50 - ABAP Keyword Documentation
A small step for mankind, but a large step for me. Why that? I had to check and adjust about eighteen
thousand { }, [ ], | characters manually arrrgh! Couldn't figure out a way of replacing them with a program. The
results are worth a look.
Maybe it takes a little getting used to, but my colleagues didn't complain any more. Time for customers to
complain? Any suggestions regarding the format? Now I have only a few lines of code to change in order to
adjust the format of all markup characters in one go ...