Sublime Text: How to jump to file from Find Results using keyboard? - find

Question

If you File > Find in Files... ⇧+⌘+F you're brought to the Find Results, listing the files and highlighted matches. You can double-click either the filename/path or the matched line to open the file at the right line.
I wonder if there is a way to do exactly what the double-click does via keyboard?
With Sublimes great file switching capabilities, I thought there must be a way to keep your hands on the keyboard when doing Find in Files....

Answer 1

Try Shift+F4 (fn+Shift+F4 on the Aluminum Keyboard).

Answer 2

It appears a plugin has been created to do this. Took a quick look, there are some additional features in the plugin. While my original answer below will work, it will be much easier to install an existing plugin.
https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/BetterFindBuffer
Doable with a plugin.
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
import re
import os
class FindInFilesGotoCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit):
view = self.view
if view.name() == "Find Results":
line_no = self.get_line_no()
file_name = self.get_file()
if line_no is not None and file_name is not None:
file_loc = "%s:%s" % (file_name, line_no)
view.window().open_file(file_loc, sublime.ENCODED_POSITION)
elif file_name is not None:
view.window().open_file(file_name)
def get_line_no(self):
view = self.view
if len(view.sel()) == 1:
line_text = view.substr(view.line(view.sel()[0]))
match = re.match(r"\s*(\d+).+", line_text)
if match:
return match.group(1)
return None
def get_file(self):
view = self.view
if len(view.sel()) == 1:
line = view.line(view.sel()[0])
while line.begin() > 0:
line_text = view.substr(line)
match = re.match(r"(.+):$", line_text)
if match:
if os.path.exists(match.group(1)):
return match.group(1)
line = view.line(line.begin() - 1)
return None
Set up a key binding with the command find_in_files_goto. Be careful when doing this though. Ideally, there would be some setting that identifies this view as the "Find In Files" view, so you could use that as a context. But I'm not aware of one. Of course, if you do find one, let me know.
Edit
Pulling up the example key binding into the main body of the answer.
{
"keys": ["enter"],
"command": "find_in_files_goto",
"context": [{
"key": "selector",
"operator": "equal",
"operand": "text.find-in-files"
}]
}

Answer 3

on SublimeText 3 I had to use F4(for going to the current result file) and Shift +F4 (for previous result).
From the default keymap...
{ "keys": ["super+shift+f"], "command": "show_panel", "args": {"panel": "find_in_files"} },
{ "keys": ["f4"], "command": "next_result" },
{ "keys": ["shift+f4"], "command": "prev_result" },
I hope this post helps.
SP

Answer 4

the command 'next_result' will do this. using the neat idea muhqu posted about using scope, you can make it so that you can press 'enter' on the line that you want to goto:
,{ "keys": ["enter"], "command": "next_result", "context": [{"key": "selector",
"operator": "equal", "operand": "text.find-in-files" }]}

Answer 5

try Ctrl+P - this quick-opens files by name in your project, For a full list of keyboard shortcuts see here

Answer 6

It is possible to emulate a double click in Sublime Text by executing the drag_select command with an argument of "by": "words" (as seen in the Default sublime-mousemap file).
However, you need to pretend that the mouse is where the caret is for this work. The following plugin will do this (Tools menu -> Developer -> New Plugin..., and replace the template with the following):
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class DoubleClickAtCaretCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit, **kwargs):
view = self.view
window_offset = view.window_to_layout((0,0))
vectors = []
for sel in view.sel():
vector = view.text_to_layout(sel.begin())
vectors.append((vector[0] - window_offset[0], vector[1] - window_offset[1]))
for idx, vector in enumerate(vectors):
view.run_command('drag_select', { 'event': { 'button': 1, 'count': 2, 'x': vector[0], 'y': vector[1] }, 'by': 'words', 'additive': idx > 0 or kwargs.get('additive', False) })
To be used in combination with a keybinding like:
{ "keys": ["alt+/"], "command": "double_click_at_caret" },