I am using eclipse IDE.I need to modify thousands of hbm.xml file by replacing the text generate="always" to generate="never". Please tell me the easiest way.
Click on the "Search" button, click on the "File Search" tab, set the filename to hbm.xml, set the text to generate="always" and click on the "Replace" button at the bottom. When it's search for all matches, it'll offer you another dialog to say what to replace it with.
The eclipse search dialogs offer a global find and replace in text files.
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When using Eclipse on a large, collaborative project, I use the Search utility to find occurrences of objects and strings across the files in the Workspace. Whenever clicking on the search button in the toolbar, the dialog defaults to the C/C++ Search tab. However, 99.9% of the time, I need the File Search tab.
This page hints on how to set the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H to open the File Search tab, but I am habitually using the mouse to open that dialog.
Is there a way to configure the Search button to open in the File Search tab?
Use the check box Remember last used page, found under the button Customize...
In Netbeans 7.2, after selecting packages or a project and opening the dialog Edit->Replace or Edit->Replace in projects, I can't find a button or option to replace all occurrences. The only way I found is to open a file, select Edit->Replace and then "Replace all", but this obviously applies only to the current file.
How to find & replace in a custom selection over files, packages, projects, ...?
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The "Search Results" window looks like this after Edit->Replace in projects...->Find:
There is no button or menu to do the replacement.
If you use Edit -> Replace (in Projects) a Search Results window appears, listing all matches available for your selection.
But now you have to click on Replace xy matches for completion.
Note that the Search Results window must be large enough so that all buttons show up!
Is there a "Find in Files" shortcut in Eclipse, as there is in Visual Studio (Ctrl+Shift+F)?
I have looked in these two lists:
Eclipse Shortcuts
"Show All Shortcuts" shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+L.
Thanks.
select workspace and press Ctrl-H
Which dialog is selected, depends on which file type is selected in the Project Explorer view. For example, if you selected a .js file and press Ctrl-H, it will bring up the dialog with the "Javascript Search" tab selected. If you want to search all files, you can press Ctrl-F7 to select the Project Explorer view, use arrow keys to select a folder above your files, then press Ctrl-H (or select a file, whose type doesn't trigger a custom dialog tab).
Thanks to the other two solutions, but here is the complete answer I was looking for, which addresses how I search all the text within the files, not just types, methods, packages, constructors, and fields:
Ctrl+H to open the "Search" dialog box
"File Search" tab, if it does not appear, expand the window or use the left/right arrows
type in the text to search for
Use "*.java", in my case since I am coding in Java, to search just these files
Click "Search"
If you are using only the File Search, you can Disable all other Searches in the Search Panel (Customize... lower left Corner). Then you have the File Search everytime you Press Ctrl+H
Ctrl+H to bring up the search box
Click 'Customize' in the lower left
Checkmark 'Remember last used page'
Click OK.
Select the file search tab and do a search
If you want to use the type-specific search (Java, Javascript ...etc) you can use Ctrl+H, which opens the search dialog, then click the Search button.
If you simply want to search for all text occurrences in the whole the workspace click the word (or select the text) you want to search then hit Ctrl+Alt+G. You will directly get all the found occurrences without even using a dialog box.
I find Ctrl+Alt+G is the best solution because it shows the variable name in different by related files (e.g. Java and XML, or Javascript and HTML) while still having the type-specific search feature available through Ctrl+H
You can rebind the Ctrl+Alt+G to finding text in a project or a working set instead of the whole workspace if that's more appealing to you.
Yes, there is shortcuts for searching Eclipse, these shortcuts are very useful when we search for particular html, jsp , xml, java, properties ,class, jar,search file with keywords.
Ctrl+H is used open Tag, in that you can select type of file Remote Search, File search, git search, java search, javascript search , etc
Ctrl+Shift+R is used to search all files in the current project
Ctrl+Shift+T is used to search all files in the workspace
press Ctrl + H . Then choose "File Search" tab.
additional search options
search for resources press Ctrl + Shift + R
search for Java types press Ctrl + Shift + T
Source: Eclipse: Default to "File Search" Tab in Search Dialog
Go to your key bindings Windows > Preferences > General > Keys
Unbind the Shorcut "Ctrl+H" for the "Open Search Dialog"
Filter/Search for "File Search" and use the "Ctrl+H" here instead.
I believe adding plug-ins power your needs.
If you install Plug-in named InstaSearch it makes your searching faster inside current active working projects.
It shows the result as you type.
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/instasearch#.VIp-_5_PGPQ
As pointed out, CTRL + H opens the Search dialog.
Since I use only Find in Files (and set File name patterns when needed), I clicked on Customize... button on the bottom of the Search dialog. It opens Search Page Selection dialog, where I turned off all other options.
You can also click on Remember last used page in the same dialog.
Ctrl+Alt+F (Find Text in Project -Customized Key)
Note - Ctrl+Alt+G is for Find text in a workspace, not in a project
How to customize this Key
Window->Preferance->General->Keys-> Search for 'Find Text in Project'->Type 'Ctrl+Alt+F' in binding ->Apply
Note - this will be helpful if the developer is working on multiple project simultaneously.
Is there a way to do a project wide search and replace in netbeans? It seems like there should be, but I can not find any information on it.
Thanks
Under the Edit menu you should find a menu item for Replace in Projects...
If you click on the project in the projects pane.
Then press and hold Ctrl+Shift+H
A find and replace window will come up where you can specify what you would like to find and what to replace it with. You can use regular expressions and then after you search you can walk through all the results in the different files that are returned.
Go to Edit Menu -> you will find Find in Projects and Replace in Projects Option:
Shorcuts:
Ctrl+Shift+F for Find in whole project.
Ctrl+Shift+H for Replace in whole project.
You have to make "Replace in Projects" search as offered by NetBeans, and operate in search results windows further on. There is a "replace" button in the icons strip on the left of the search windows; select all search results (or just some of them you feel appropriate) and click that icon.
You might have to wait a while if there are many files you are working with.
If you need to find something and replace in the open file, you can do this:
Go to Edit Menu -> you will find Replace and below the editor will appear Incremental Search Sidebar where you can type what you need to find and replace.
Shorcuts:
Ctrl+H for Find what and Replace with in the open file.
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.