diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/internal/workbench/renderers/swt/AbstractTableInformationControl.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/internal/workbench/renderers/swt/AbstractTableInformationControl.java
index f4333185d8f..79391dc04aa 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/internal/workbench/renderers/swt/AbstractTableInformationControl.java
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/internal/workbench/renderers/swt/AbstractTableInformationControl.java
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ private void setMatcherString(String pattern) {
 		stringMatcherUpdated();
 	}
 
-	private SearchPattern getMatcher() {
+	protected SearchPattern getMatcher() {
 		return fSearchPattern;
 	}
 
diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/internal/workbench/renderers/swt/BasicPartList.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/internal/workbench/renderers/swt/BasicPartList.java
index 83df2a75389..2ca1f2a7cf6 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/internal/workbench/renderers/swt/BasicPartList.java
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/internal/workbench/renderers/swt/BasicPartList.java
@@ -28,13 +28,21 @@
 import org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.modeling.EPartService;
 import org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.CTabRendering;
 import org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.StackRenderer;
+import org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt.internal.copy.SearchPattern;
+import org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt.internal.copy.StyledStringHighlighter;
 import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ArrayContentProvider;
-import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ColumnLabelProvider;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.BoldStylerProvider;
 import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ColumnViewerToolTipSupport;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ILabelProvider;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ILabelProviderListener;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StyledCellLabelProvider;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StyledString;
 import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TableViewer;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ViewerCell;
 import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ViewerComparator;
 import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
 import org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabItem;
+import org.eclipse.swt.custom.StyleRange;
 import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Font;
 import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.FontData;
 import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Image;
@@ -46,9 +54,10 @@
 
 public class BasicPartList extends AbstractTableInformationControl {
 
-	private class BasicStackListLabelProvider extends ColumnLabelProvider {
+	private class BasicStackListLabelProvider extends StyledCellLabelProvider implements ILabelProvider {
 
 		private final Font boldFont;
+		private BoldStylerProvider boldStylerProvider;
 
 		public BasicStackListLabelProvider() {
 			Font font = Display.getDefault().getSystemFont();
@@ -60,14 +69,45 @@ public BasicStackListLabelProvider() {
 		}
 
 		@Override
-		public Font getFont(Object element) {
+		public void update(ViewerCell cell) {
+			Object element = cell.getElement();
+			String text = getText(element);
+			cell.setText(text);
+			cell.setImage(getImage(element));
+			cell.setFont(isHidden(element) ? boldFont : null);
+
+			SearchPattern matcher = getMatcher();
+			if (matcher == null || text == null || text.isEmpty()) {
+				cell.setStyleRanges(null);
+			} else {
+				int prefixOffset = text.startsWith("*") ? 1 : 0; //$NON-NLS-1$
+				String unprefixed = text.substring(prefixOffset);
+				StyledString styled = new StyledStringHighlighter().highlight(unprefixed, matcher.getPattern(),
+						getBoldStylerProvider().getBoldStyler());
+				StyleRange[] ranges = styled.getStyleRanges();
+				if (prefixOffset > 0) {
+					for (StyleRange range : ranges) {
+						range.start += prefixOffset;
+					}
+				}
+				cell.setStyleRanges(ranges);
+			}
+			super.update(cell);
+		}
+
+		private boolean isHidden(Object element) {
 			if (element instanceof MPart part) {
 				CTabItem item = renderer.findItemForPart(part);
-				if (item != null && !item.isShowing()) {
-					return boldFont;
-				}
+				return item != null && !item.isShowing();
 			}
-			return super.getFont(element);
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		private BoldStylerProvider getBoldStylerProvider() {
+			if (boldStylerProvider == null) {
+				boldStylerProvider = new BoldStylerProvider(boldFont);
+			}
+			return boldStylerProvider;
 		}
 
 		@Override
@@ -81,7 +121,6 @@ public String getText(Object element) {
 
 		@Override
 		public Image getImage(Object element) {
-			// Check if icons should be hidden for view tabs
 			if (shouldHideIcons()) {
 				return null;
 			}
@@ -98,8 +137,28 @@ public boolean useNativeToolTip(Object object) {
 			return true;
 		}
 
+		@Override
+		public void addListener(ILabelProviderListener listener) {
+			// no-op
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public void removeListener(ILabelProviderListener listener) {
+			// no-op
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public boolean isLabelProperty(Object element, String property) {
+			return false;
+		}
+
 		@Override
 		public void dispose() {
+			super.dispose();
+			if (boldStylerProvider != null) {
+				boldStylerProvider.dispose();
+				boldStylerProvider = null;
+			}
 			boldFont.dispose();
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/workbench/swt/internal/copy/StyledStringHighlighter.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/workbench/swt/internal/copy/StyledStringHighlighter.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2567dff554e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt/src/org/eclipse/e4/ui/workbench/swt/internal/copy/StyledStringHighlighter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2019 Uenal Akkaya and others.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *     Uenal Akkaya - initial API and implementation
+ *     Patrik Suzzi <psuzzi@gmail.com> - Bug 552144
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt.internal.copy;
+
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StyledString;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StyledString.Styler;
+
+/**
+ * Internal copy of {@code org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.StyledStringHighlighter} so the
+ * e4 layer can highlight matches without depending on
+ * {@code org.eclipse.ui.workbench}.
+ */
+public class StyledStringHighlighter {
+
+	private static final String QUOTE_START = "(\\Q"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String QUOTE_END = "\\E)"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String DOT_STAR_LAZY = ".*?"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String DOT = "."; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String QMARK = "?"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String STAR = "*"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final char TERMINATOR = '<';
+
+	public StyledString highlight(String text, String pattern, Styler styler) {
+		if (text == null || text.isEmpty()) {
+			return new StyledString();
+		}
+		StyledString styledString = new StyledString(text);
+
+		if (pattern == null || pattern.isEmpty() //
+				|| STAR.equals(pattern) || QMARK.equals(pattern)) {
+			return styledString;
+		}
+
+		pattern = transformWildcardToRegex(pattern);
+
+		try {
+			highlight(text, pattern, styledString, styler);
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			// in case of an exception a highlighting of the text won't take place
+		}
+
+		return styledString;
+	}
+
+	private static String transformWildcardToRegex(String pattern) {
+		char[] chars = pattern.toCharArray();
+		int len = chars.length;
+		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+		boolean quoting = false;
+		boolean prevStar = false;
+		boolean prevChar = false;
+		for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+			char c = chars[i];
+			boolean isWild = isWildcard(c);
+			if (isWild) {
+				if (quoting) {
+					sb.append(QUOTE_END);
+					quoting = false;
+				}
+				if (c == '*') {
+					if (prevStar) {
+						continue;
+					}
+					sb.append(DOT_STAR_LAZY);
+				} else {
+					sb.append(DOT);
+				}
+				if (i < len - 1 && !isWildcard(chars[i + 1])) {
+					sb.append(QUOTE_START);
+					quoting = true;
+				}
+			} else {
+				if (!quoting) {
+					sb.append(QUOTE_START);
+					quoting = true;
+				}
+				if (prevChar && Character.isUpperCase(c)) {
+					sb.append(QUOTE_END);
+					sb.append(DOT_STAR_LAZY);
+					sb.append(QUOTE_START);
+				}
+				if (c != TERMINATOR) {
+					sb.append(c);
+				}
+				if (i == len - 1) {
+					sb.append(QUOTE_END);
+					quoting = false;
+				}
+			}
+			prevChar = !isWild;
+			prevStar = c == '*';
+		}
+		return sb.toString();
+	}
+
+	private static boolean isWildcard(char c) {
+		return c == '?' || c == '*';
+	}
+
+	private void highlight(String text, String filterPattern, StyledString styledString, Styler boldStyler) {
+		Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(filterPattern, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
+		Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
+
+		while (matcher.find()) {
+			int groupCount = matcher.groupCount();
+			if (groupCount == 0) {
+				styledString.setStyle(matcher.start(), matcher.end() - matcher.start(), boldStyler);
+			} else {
+				for (int i = 1; i <= groupCount; i++) {
+					styledString.setStyle(matcher.start(i), matcher.end(i) - matcher.start(i), boldStyler);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+}