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I want to jump to the first match of ctrl-shift-f search.
For example I search for "newtest", and the I see the first match.
The first match is the right one.
How to to jump there without using the mouse?
Up to now I failed to find a keyboard shortcut.
I'm not aware of any way to jump there immediately. But you can definitely do it the normal way of using Tab navigation.
Just keep pressing Tab until the search results listing view is focused, and then use the up and down arrow keys to navigate between entries of the search results.
If no entry of the search results has been selected yet, then pressing either up or down the first time will select the first entry of the results list when it has focus.
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In eclipse, when using the CTRL+F dialog, it is a bit annoying to search for some word in a file and having to select the direction you want to search (forward or backward) or having to put the cursor focus at the top of the file to search forward.
Is it possible to disable this direction option and search for words just like Chrome does? (when searching in Chrome, if you reach the last coincidence and press next again, it will go back to the first one immediately).
In the Find/Replace dialog in the section Options there is the checkbox Wrap search for that.
The Wrap search option of the Find/Replace dialog is also applied to the Find Next (Ctrl+K) command.
Alternatively, you can use Incremental Find (Ctrl+J) which is a Find without a dialog: in the Incremental Find mode the entered search string is displayed in the status bar and by hitting Ctrl+J again you go to the next match. On the last match you have to hit Ctrl+J twice to go to the first match.
Eclipse has this great feature of searching text in Workspace(Ctrl+Alt+G), Project, File or Working Set.
The results are displayed neatly in a Search tab/view and when I double-click (i.e. mouse) a particular line, the file (in which that searched text is found) is open exactly at where the search text is.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for that double-click? To open the next one?
There is not one keyboard shortcut to perform this action that I know of, but there are two of them that could work in sequence.
Go to Window > Prefs > Keys
Search for "Show view search"
Set some custom keyboard shortcut because the default one is too long to be efficient (I like to use Alt+Shift+S)
Perform your search
With the search view in focus double-click the first result
When you are ready to go to next item, use a keyboard shortcut to show search view again (Alt+Shift+S for me)
Then press 'Ctrl+.'
This shortcut will display the next result and open a new file is needed.
So with this sequence you can use two keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Shift+S then Ctrl+.) to do what you want.
Checkout the Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts PDF list for v2.1, v3.0, and v3.1 HERE
#gamerson has the right answer, but for the future I wanted to make sure you are aware of two key meta keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl-Shift-L (Command-Shift-L on Mac) - Opens up a searchable list of available shortcuts.
Ctrl-3 (Command-3 on Mac) - Quick Access gives you a searchable, prioritized list of a bunch of stuff - commands, menu items, windows, tabs, etc. It's pretty darn useful.
i see this post. but i still dont see any way to be able to quickly step through a bunch of search results, making edits, and using a shortcut key to advance to the next result. the Find Next shortcut only works in the Search Tab window, not in the Editor window, where i have focus, while editing. I have to keep clicking on the next result and then clicking in the editor window to make my edits.
Seems so basic, i must be missing something.
i now see that Ctl+K is set to do something similar.
Ctrl+Alt+G is a default shortcut to search currently selected text in the whole workspace (Search>Text>Workspace from menu).
There are no default key mappings for searching selected text in file and in the current project but I find it very usefull added (Ctrl+Alt+F, and Ctrl+Alt+P respectively (Window>Preferences>Keys))
When I search something in Eclipse, the search items stay highlighted for some time. How do I remove this after I have found what I was looking for?
Remove your matches in the search view, that will remove the highlighting. I.e., click the button with the two X's in the search view.
If you cannot see that view, navigate to window -> show view -> Search
AFIAK, the search result view has a toolbar button to clear the search results. This removes the highlighting in the editor.
An alternative way is to run a search that will yield no results. For example file search, containing text - leave this field empty, files - some stupid extension like ".qwe".
For people concerned that https://stackoverflow.com/a/3545215/6012102 removes search results from history.
Select the search from history, press "Run the current search again" (2 rotating arrows icon). This will run the search and you will get all the results back (this brings back the text highlight as well unfortunately).
Disable Preferences->General->Text Editors->Annotations->Search Results->Text as.
For a single instance, delete the line and undo it: Ctrl+DCtrl+Z. This is faster than the other answers, and worked when they failed (for some buggy JSP I had).
I could have sworn I saw it once before in a screencast where someone had the find/replace window docked in their Eclipse environment.
However looking through the list of options in "Window > Show" the closest thing I can find is the Search window.
I find that I use it quite a bit and with larger monitors these days I figure I could afford to have it open in my perspective all the time.
Is this possible?
Thanks.
One poor-man's workaround is to dock a view that you don't need in a part of Eclipse where you want the find/replace view and then place the find/replace dialog on top of that like this:
Clearly this is a huge kludge but it does work.
I am not sure about that, since Fast views are:
icons allowing users to quickly display different views that have been created as fast views
And the search/replace is a Dialog, not a View..
(source: bpsite.net)
(That Dialog box is not like Views, which support editors, also have their own menus. Some views also have their own toolbars.)
The help page mentions:
Fast views are hidden views that can be quickly opened and closed. They work like other views except they do not take up space in your Workbench window.
This might not be an exact answer for the question. But this works like a charm.
Press ctrl + j and keep typing...
Use ctrl + k to go on
Use shift key wherever required.
Use Edit > Incremental Find Next (Ctrl+J) or Edit > Incremental Find Previous (Ctrl+Shift+J) to enter the incremental find mode, and start typing the string to match. Matches are found incrementally as you type. The search string is shown in the status line. Press Ctrl+J or Ctrl+Shift+J to go to the next or previous match. Press Enter or Esc to exit incremental find mode.