Is it possible to search with regular expression in "Intellij Search Everywhere"?

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In Eclipse there is a feature which is called "Open Type in Hierarchy". We use the shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + H on Windows or Cmd + Shift + H on Mac. It provides special characters (*, ?, etc.). So you can list Java types with specific pattern.

Open Type in Hierarchy in Eclipse (Screenshot)

When I tried to list all classes in IntelliJ, I wasn't able to get the same result. Probably IntelliJ doesn't understand this "*" character.

Search Everywhere in IntelliJ (Screenshot)

Is there any kind of search mechanism in IntelliJ to get the same result?

Thank you for your help.

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If you use ctrl+shift+f (to find in files) you can hit alt+x to enable regex searching. It's got all kinds of useful stuff.

ctrl+n (the class search) also understands '*', but not regex.

ctrl+h will show a hierarchy, but I'm not aware of a filter mechanism that might help there.

You can find other useful shortcuts here (and their Mac equivalents): https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/intellij-idea/docs/IntelliJIDEA_ReferenceCard.pdf

In you first screenshot you seem to be searching a jar; in the 2nd you're actually searching 'in all places'. If you click on that dropdown you can restrict where you're searching. The filtering button might also be helpful.

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