An easy to use grep console for Eclipse IDE with a handful of useful functions. Filter Strings or RegExp matches from any TextConsoles Highlights matches Use filter settings for each Grep Console Enable/disable filter per click Filter / search ranges of lines (useful for XML-content) Resume filtering after a console has been disposed and restarted (beta state, tested for Java and Ant Consoles) Re-filter on demand Preset support, save your filter settings, import and export them Exception Stacktrace hyperlink support Terminate process capability Show statistic data for current console (with update facility) ...
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Eclipse Versions: 2026-03 (4.39), 2025-12 (4.38), 2025-09 (4.37), 2025-06 (4.36), 2025-03 (4.35), 2024-12 (4.34), 2024-09 (4.33), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-03 (4.31), 2023-12 (4.30), 2023-09 (4.29), 2023-06 (4.28), 2023-03 (4.27), 2022-12 (4.26), 2022-09 (4.25), 2022-06 (4.24), 2022-03 (4.23), 2021-12 (4.22), 2021-09 (4.21), 2021-06 (4.20), 2021-03 (4.19), 2020-12 (4.18), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), Neon (4.6), Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), Kepler (4.3), Juno (4.2, 3.8), Previous to Juno (<=4.1)
Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK
Organization Name: Jens Pfahl
Development Status: Production/Stable
Date Created: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 16:30
License: EPL
Date Updated: Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 08:00
Submitted by: Jens Pfahl
| Date | Ranking | Installs | Clickthroughs |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 0/0 | 0 | 1 |
| November 2025 | 320/626 | 21 | 16 |
| October 2025 | 391/637 | 11 | 16 |
| September 2025 | 362/653 | 16 | 20 |
| August 2025 | 375/615 | 11 | 13 |
| July 2025 | 326/636 | 19 | 7 |
| June 2025 | 350/627 | 16 | 12 |
| May 2025 | 377/634 | 14 | 8 |
| April 2025 | 333/623 | 18 | 8 |
| March 2025 | 394/661 | 16 | 15 |
| February 2025 | 333/645 | 25 | 16 |
| January 2025 | 338/654 | 22 | 19 |
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How to prevent original console from popping to front
Submitted by Steve DeFazio on Thu, 10/12/2017 - 14:47
I was able to get this working in 2 seconds, it works great. My issue is that as my program is running and generating logs, the original console pops to the foreground every time a new log is created, and I have to click the "Switch consoles" button to go back to my filtered view. Is there a way around this?
Additionally, instead of highlighting things that match, is there a way to simply omit things that don't?
Re: How to prevent original console from popping to front
Submitted by Jens Pfahl on Fri, 10/27/2017 - 06:44
In reply to How to prevent original console from popping to front by Steve DeFazio
You can try deactivating "Show when program writes to standard out/error" on your original console.
You can omit lines that not matches, by clicking "Not matching" in the Easy Console Grepper dialog.
Great plugin
Submitted by Jeremy Philippe on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 06:46
Thanks a lot!
Possible improvement (for me anyway) would be a small textfield to quickly type a filter and having the console clear&refresh as I type (I think the Android Logcat behaved like that, but not sure).
Re: Great plugin
Submitted by Jens Pfahl on Thu, 08/11/2016 - 04:13
In reply to Great plugin by Jeremy Philippe
Thanks for your proposal.
I'll think about that. But presumably this is not possible caused by the used RCP framework, where ECG is integrated in.
It is not possible to integrate textfields into a ToolBar :-(
But I could integrate a new "Clear&Refresh" button into the Grep Settings dialog.
Simple, does what it says.
Submitted by James Marshall on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 05:25
I spent hours trying to get Grep Console to work for me, but this plugin worked out of the box. Recommended.