Aw, man! That really sucks...I was hoping you'd had at least an opportunity to see what it can (and more importantly cannot) do, as that's how I found this thread in the first place...trying to find if Aptana could copy a file path from within a project, either from the project explorer, or ANYWHERE ELSE...
So okay. Not the biggest fan of MS, but at least they got one thing right: Click in the address bar in Explorer and you can select (and subsequently COPY&PASTE) the current dirpath. I needed a quick copy&paste of that path to tell another dev where a particular file was, that I found using Aptanta's file search. Ordinarily no big deal, right?
Well, after having dealt with the install "issues" of Aptana multiple times, before having read this post, I'd gotten used to it. I guess I'm just abunantly forgiving when it comes to installs...in any case, there have been...let's just say an exponentially increasing number of WTF!? moments the more I learn the intricacies of navigating Aptana's preferences...
Having said that, Aptana Studio 3 is far superior (can't remember if the install improved, unfortunately) to Aptana Studio 2, and the reason I continue to use it to this day is because of Just that: The file search. It is the fastest, most regex-complete search I've *ever* found.
Having said That...they really jacked up the regex search&replace with their last few updates, as far as the inline search goes(as opposed to the popup search window).
So overall, my confidence in Aptana is beginning to teeter, to say the least...