Is there a shortcut that would act like Find in Files shortcut, but would also perform a search of the highlighted text?
I guess you are looking for this icon "Find in Selection (Alt+L)"
Just press Crtl + F and Alt + L to highlight the icon and you are good to go.
The 'find in files' shortcut by itself searches for highlighted text 'ctrl+shift+f'. You can navigate through the results with 'f4' to get to next one.
If you want to search for all references you can use ' shift+ f12'.
If you want to see the list of all shortcuts you can always use 'ctrl+k ctrl+s' to browse shortcuts and edit them.
I just uncovered the Search Under Cursor extension which does exactly what I believe is wanted i.e. your cursor is on a word and you want to quickly search all files for that word, without having to select/click the whole word.
I find it interesting that this function isn't baked into VS Code, I run it so unbelievably often. Just saving a reach for mouse and double-click, or an "Expand Selection" keystroke is a huge win for me.
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I use CMD + SHIFT + F to go search something on VSCode. Now, after typing my search phrase, how can I jump into the search results using keyboard shortcut? The only way I know is to use TAB, but I have to press it many times before the focus reaches the actual search list. If there's a quicker way to go to the search results via keyboard, that would be awesome.
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I found the answer while looking at the Keyboard Shortcuts in settings. The shortcut is F4 (to go forward) and Shift + F4 (to go backward) to navigate between the results.
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For those who want to navigate between results without touching the mouse.
If you press F4, your caret will be placed inside any found file, preventing you from usign the arrows to navigate between the found results.
The only way I've found to focus the results is by invoking Search: Collapse All which I've bound to alt + -.
So: ctrl+shift+f -> 'foo' -> F4 -> alt+- -> arrowUp/Down...
I would like VSCode to improve keyboard usability by default... till then there's some mazes to solve unfortunately.
How can I set bookmarks in Visual Studio Code? I can't find any keyboard shortcuts.
Or is there anything else that I can use instead?
Yes, via extensions. Try Bookmarks extension on marketplace.visualstudio.com
Hit Ctrl+Shift+P and type the install extensions and press enter, then type Bookmark and press enter.
Next you may wish to customize what keys are used to make a bookmark and move to it. For that see this question.
You need to do this via an extension as of the version 1.8.1.
Go to View → Extensions. This will open Extensions Panel.
Type bookmark to list all related extensions.
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I personally like "Numbered Bookmarks" - it is pretty simple and powerful.
Go to the line you need to create a bookmark.
Click Ctrl + Shift + [some number]
Ex: Ctrl + Shift + 2
Now you can jump to this line from anywhere by pressing Ctrl + number
Ex: Ctrl + 2
Visual Studio Code currently does not support bookmarks natively. Please add this as feature request to our Git Hub issue list (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode).
In the meantime there are some ways to navigate around the code based on your navigation history. You can Ctrl+Tab to quickly jump to previously opened files. You can also navigate within your code based on cursor positions using Goto | Back and Goto | Forward.
Both VS Code extensions can be used:
'Bookmarks'
'Numbered Bookmarks'
Personally, I'm suggesting:
Numbered Bookmarks, with 'navigate through all files' option:
ctrl + Shift + P in VS Code
In newly open field, type: Open User Settings
Paste this key/value: "numberedBookmarks.navigateThroughAllFiles": "allowDuplicates" (allow duplicates of bookmarks),
Or, paste this key/value: "numberedBookmarks.navigateThroughAllFiles": "replace"
NOTE
Either way, be careful with shortcuts (Ctrl+1, Ctrl+Shift+1,..) that are already assigned.
Personally, mine were in 2 conflicts, with:
VS Code shortcuts, that already exists,
Ditto clipboard (I've got paste on each call of bookmark)
The bookmarks extension mentioned in the accepted answer conflicts with toggling breakpoints via the margin.
You could do the same with breakpoints and select the debug tab on the left to see them listed. Better yet, use File, Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts and set (Shift+)Ctrl+F9 to navigate between them, even across files:
If you are using vscodevim extension, then you can harness the power of vim keyboard moves. When you are on a line that you would like to bookmark, in normal mode, you can type:
m {a-z A-Z} for a possible 52 bookmarks within a file. Small letter alphabets are for bookmarks within a single file. Capital letters preserve their marks across files.
To navigate to a bookmark from within any file, you then need to hit ' {a-z A-Z}. I don't think these bookmarks stay across different VSCode sessions though.
More vim shortcuts here.
No extension
As an alternative you can do Ctrl + P as "Go to file" in your workspace and type:
partial name of your file and/or extension.
type # + any name of method, property, variable, class (symbol) etc.
in currently opened file navigate between symbols with #
I found it more convenient than Bookmarks extension. Of course it depends a lot on your naming conventions and how well you know your codebase.
Under the general heading of 'editors always forget to document getting out…' to toggle go to another line and press the combination ctrl+shift+'N' to erase the current bookmark do the same on marked line…
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.
In Komodo Edit, an input field is available in the toolbar. When I type text in it, it highlights matching search results. Is there something like this in Eclipse, either directly or via a plugin?
As TK Gospodinov has already mentioned, there is an Incremental option in Find/Replace (Ctrl+F) dialog.
There is also a special key binding for Incremental search in Eclipse (and personally I use it more frequently). From Eclipse Tips and Tricks:
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.
If you'd like to have search functionality in a toolbar, you may be interested in the eclipse-glance plugin, which allows you to use the incremental search function in a toolbar by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F while in any text area.
This feature is already available in eclipse. No need to install any plug-in.
Press Ctrl+F, and the Find pop up appears.
Now check the incremental checkbox, and then your texts will be found as you type. No need to hit return.
OR
Use Ctrl+J and you can activate the live search, just that there wont be any UI visible, but you can see the status in eclipse status bar at the bottom.
Press Ctrl+J, start typing the text you want to search for. Press esc to go back to edit mode
The closest thing to the functionality you are asking about is the 'incremental search' mode, which is triggered by checking the 'Incremental' checkbox in the Options group on the Find/Replace dialog in Eclipse (Ctrl+F from the code editor). This will make it start highlighting matches as you type, and if they are keywords, Eclipse will highlight other occurrences (references) in the code editor. Matches inside strings or Javadoc will not be highlighted, however, unless it happens to be the first match after your cursor's position inside the editor.
One similar thing (not the same) is just enabling "mark occurences", then selecting function name, variable etc.
When I use CTRL+H I end up on the Java Search tab. I would very much like a shortcut to go directly to File Search instead. Is that possible?
See image here for what I'm talking about:
You can just define a key binding that opens the file search:
Go to Preferences > General > Keys
Type "file search" in the search box. (If there are no results, and you have a really old Eclipse version, select the Include Unbound Commands check box.)
Put the caret into the Binding text box and press the key combination you want to use:
You can either re-use the CTRL+H binding (delete the other binding in that case) or define another one (e.g. CTRL+SHIFT+H). To delete the other binding search for "Open Search Dialog" and click on Unbind Command.
Other solution: You could press CTRL+3 in your editor, type in "file s", press Enter. The next time you press CTRL+3 "File Search" is at the top.
Another option is to open the search dialog (Ctrl+H) then click customize and hide java and task search tabs, next time you do Ctrl+H, file search will be the only one showing, thus it will be selected by default
I actually think the best (and easiest way) is to simply open the search dialog (ctrl + h), hit customize, and then select the checkbox for "Remember last page used." Then tab over to the File Search once. So long as that is the last search tab you used, it will always open there. The advantage to this is that you don't lose easy access to the other tabs, should you actually need them! (working in Eclipse Kepler).
I learnt to use a "pseudo-hotkey" ALT+A F (works also as ALT+A ALT+F), which resolves to: "Menu Se[a]rch → [F]ile..." and has the advantage of being always present, without need for reconfiguration.
I've run into this problem before, too.
I tried following the advice in the question response given by #Martin to rebind Ctrl+H to "File Search" in Window | Preferences | General | Keys, but for some reason, I don't have a "File Search" entry in the Command column. (I'm running Eclipse 3.3 currently; maybe the "File Search" entry was added in a subsequent release?)
Update: As Martin pointed out in a comment on this answer, I didn't have the "Include unbound commands" checkbox checked in the Preferences | Keys dialog, which is why "File Search" wasn't showing up for me. I now have Ctrl+H bound to "File Search", as Martin suggested in his answer on this page, and it works great. Thanks Martin!
I ended up working around the original problem by bringing up the Search dialog with Ctrl+H, then clicking the Customize button on the dialog, which brings up a "Search Page Selection" dialog which allows you to hide or show tabs on the Search dialog. I hid the tabs other than "File Search," which causes "File Search" to be activated by default on future uses of Ctrl+H.
As far as I know, the search window tab depend of the open file you're on when calling the search function. So, for example if your on a web.xml file, it will open the "plug-in search" instead of the "java-search".
Edit: there is a way to force the default open tab, by assigning a shortcut to the "File Search" action in the "Keys" preference panel.
Probably this feature came recently [confirmed its there in since Juno] and looks intelligent.
Press Ctrl+H --> Customize --> [Checkbox] Remember last used page.
This way you are not far from other options if required anytime. So if you use File search often then you will not get annoyed getting what you last chose.
I would like to provide a workaround here:
you can 'remember last used page' to avoid opening it over and over again.
UPDATE: user #muescha, in the comments underneath the question, just pointed out to me that I accidentally answered the wrong question! Nevertheless, it is still a valuable answer (just not to this question), so I'm leaving it.
My answer answers the question: How do I use a hotkey directly to search for a File in Eclipse?
Ctrl + Shift + R works fantastically! Use asterisks (*) for wildcards. It is very similar to the Ctrl + P fuzzy search in Sublime Text 3.
Sample searches using the Ctrl + Shift + R "Open Resource" search in Eclipse:
rea
*.txt
*32*f1*c
*3*1*c*h
Notice if you just put an asterisk * between every character in the search string it works just like Sublime Text 3's Ctrl + P "fuzzy search"! Beautiful!
Side note: you can also use the Search --> File menu dialog to search for files.