After doing a Java or File search in Eclipse, the (purple) highlighting of matches in files persists indefinitely, distracting me from whatever task I try to accomplish after I complete my search.
I know that I can open the Search view (by pressing Alt+Shift+Q,S, or by clicking its icon) and then click the "Remove All Matches" button that looks like an advertisement for Dos Equis, but I get tired of all this view-activating and clicking.
I want to clear search results in Eclipse using just the keyboard. Is there a way to do this?
Press Ctrl+F7. Keep on Pressing F7 when reach search view. Release Ctrl Key.
Close search view(in fact any view) as explained here
Once search view is removed from the current perspective search highlight will be removed automatically. If you want to see it again then open search view.
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If I search something in Visual Studio Code with Ctrl+Shift+F, the result appears in the SEARCH pane.
If I click or push Enter on an item, it will be opened in the editor window.
How can I jump to the next found item if the editor window is active, without using the mouse?
F4 and Shift-F4 will traverse your search results even if an editor window has focus.
If the search pane has focus the arrow keys will tab down to each found entry below the search widget and the file and location will be opened and highlighted as you go up and down. If the folder is closed, the right arrow will open it. And the left arrow will close it again. It is pretty slick actually.
And Ctrl+Shift+F gives focus back to the search pane and you can scroll through your old results (with the arrow keys or F4) even if another term was selected and populates the search input - as long as you don't hit enter - which would perform the new search.
When using eclipse, I often use the find/replace tool without touching the mouse. I'll press Ctrl+F, type the text I want to find, press tab, type the replacement text, then press Shift+Tab 3 times, to bring focus to the "replace all" button, then I press Space to perform the action and ESC to close the window.
Today, I tried this and tab will only switch between the "find" text box and the "replace with" text box, meaning I have to go to my mouse to perform the "replace all" action, which takes forever (comparatively). I have had this problem before, and thought I recalled a key binding that changes the focus traversal policy for eclipse, but I cant seem to find it now. Googling has turned up nothing, but I don’t think I am searching for the right terms. I don’t think this is OS related, but I am on a Mac.
Thanks in advance!
I finally found this. It was OS related- Mac has a setting to allow tab navigation through buttons.
System Preferences-> keyboard, at the bottom select "all controls"
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.
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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.
For searching a document, I like using the floating Find/Replace window that pops up. Lately, however, hitting command-F pulls up this Find/Replace bar at the bottom of the editor window. I suppose I wouldn't mind it so much, except instead of selecting the text to search it puts the insertion point after whatever I've searched for before. Very annoying. Clicking on the magnifying glass pops up the other Find/Replace dialog.
How can I get the normal dialog to pop-up by default?
I should add that for some reason search is no longer working in Preferences, so I can no longer just search for "Find" to locate the setting I might need to change. So you'll have to give me the exact location.
A little more experimenting reveals that this is PyDev-specific behavior but I still can't find the setting that needs changing.
type Ctrl-Shift-L twice brings up Preferences window.
In Preferences window: type 'find bar' in the search field. This finds 'Find bar' in category 'Aptana Studio' (assuming you have Aptana Studio included in Eclipse). Click this entry 'Find Bar' to bring up the 'Find Bar' settings page.
On the Find Bar settings page uncheck 'Use custom find bar on Aptana editors' See shot.
This did the trick for me!
I added a feature request to the Pydev tracker for a setting to suppress the find bar: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3097964&group_id=85796&atid=577332
Could you make sure the 'command-f' is binding with menu item 'edit' - 'find/replace...'?
Might other plug-in hook the key binding.
And another way is using 'spy' to see which one contribute it. Focus on the search widget, then click 'alt - shift - f1'.