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I am used to Resharper where I can search for files, not the content, but the filename, which makes it quick to open new files.
Is this feature implemented in Visual Studio Code and is there a shortcut for it?
Using Go to File... which is under the Go menu or using keyboard shortcut:
On Windows Ctrl+p or Ctrl+e
On macOS Cmd ⌘+p
On Linux Ctrl+p or Ctrl+e
Then type the file name.
Also be sure to checkout that you can set your own keybindings and that there are cheatsheets available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Since the 1.70.0 release in July 2022, you can find and filter in tree views such as the Find Explorer. You can press Ctrl+F inside trees to pop up the Find control.
Before the 1.70.0 release
when you click anywhere in the explorer tree, and start typing something on the keyboard, the search keyword appears in the top right corner of the screen : ("module.ts")
And when you hover over the keyword with the mouse cursor, you can click on "Enable Filter on Type" to filter tree with your search !
On OSX, for me it's cmd ⌘ + p. cmd ⌘ + e just searches within the currently opened file.
Method1
Go->Go to File OR cntrl+p
Search your file
Method2
view->command palette OR cntrl+shift+p
type "Go to file"
Search your file
Win: CTRL+P or CTRL+E
Mac: CMD+P or CMD+E
Don't want to remember another shortcut?
Open the Command Palette:
Menu: View -> Command Palette
Windows Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+P
and hit backspace to delete ">" character and then begin typing to search for files via filename. :)
Other answers don't mention this command is named workbench.action.quickOpen.
You can use this to search the Keyboard Shortcuts menu located in Preferences.
On MacOS the default keybinding is cmd ⌘ + P.
(Coming from Sublime Text, I always change this to cmd ⌘ + T)
Also works in ubuntu with Ctrl+E
You can also press F1 to open the Command Palette and then remove the > via Backspace. Now you can search for files, too.
consider you have thousand of files in vs code and you want to search for a file with particular name then
Right click VS code editor.
Select Command Palete
In the text box type the file name
The problem with Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P) is that it searches your workspace while ignoring files and folders set in the .gitignore file. To change this behavior, add "search.useIgnoreFiles": false in your settings.json file under .vscode directory.
NOTE that search.exclude and files.exclude settings will override this. So, in your settings.json file, you should comment them out or set these two settings to false as well if you want to search all the files and directories in your VS Code project. An example for settings.json where search.exclude and files.exclude are commented out for searching all the files:
{
"search.exclude": {
//"**/Lib": true,
//"**/Scripts": true
},
"files.exclude": {
//"**/Lib": true,
//"**/Scripts": true
},
"search.useIgnoreFiles": false
}
Look here for more info.
I'm using VSCode 1.12.1
OSX press : Cmd + p
If you just want to search a single file name
Just Ctrl+P, then type and choose your one
If you want to open all files whose name contains a particular string
Open search panel
Put any common words inside those files
in 'files to include', put the search string with *, e.g. *Signaller*
For filtering in the tree on keyboard typing. The feature is deprecated. No more work.
No more of this old red inflexible box:
The replacement is way better and more interesting:
Actually not really. It could have been. The new way only filters on expanded folders only. And that's a shame. Check the last session for where the development is at. And for the options we are left with.
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_70#_tree-find-control
CMD + F (mac) or CTRL + F (else) [while focused]
No settings are needed. It just works. And more elegantly (except for the problem of only filtering searching through the visible expanded directories).
And for the default mode. highlight or filter. You can change that with:
"workbench.list.defaultFindMode": "highlight"
"workbench.list.defaultFindMode": "filter"
Only the open folders and visible elements Problem and what are we at?
It's great to know about this feature. But then you'll soon encounter the limitation it has at the moment.
Filtering only through open directories. It can help great. But then we want to filter through all. And when the project is big. That becomes totally unusable.
Issues: 1, 2, 3
We can see it's added to the backlog here:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/116286
duplicates: 1
You may think:
Expand all
Ok what about expanding all. Then using this.
===> That would work great => But => There is no such a feature of expanding all now.
Issues: 1, 2, duplicates: 1
Some configuration
At the moment no configuration does help!
"workbench.list.keyboardNavigation": "filter"
doesn't and many others. I tried them all. For the moment!
Extension that do that probably using web view
None exists. And to be implemented one needs to figure out the indexation used by vscode. Or implement its own indexation and then fuzzy search through using indexes. Otherwise something more simple that works for no big directories. Can be built fast. [I don't have time to do it myself. Especially that this would be resolved sometime in the future and we still can work with CTRL|CMD + P]
So that to clear for you the thoughts that you may get. And save you time.
Resume
So shortly we may see the feature of filtering all in a future version of vscode as it was added to the backlog. Right now we will be waiting. And maybe long enough.
Expand all seems not to be coming at any time or any time soon.
So what now. Left with nothing? Here a WORKAROUND
The now is => use CTRL|CMD + F on visible things. or on folders. By manually expanding them.
Or use CTRL|CMD + P without closing it. By following the next rules:
To open multiple files in the same editor. Navigate up and down and for each file use Right Arrow.
When they open they will be opened beside each other. You can use CMD|CTRL + ALT + LEFT | RIGHT to navigate between tabs left and right. Faster and better with the keyboard. The last open is the one you'll be at when you close the pallet.
To open a file in a new split editor use ALT + RIGHT ARROW.
Ref: 1
For windows.
if Ctrl+p doesn't always work
use Ctrl+shift+n instead.
To search for specifil file types in visual studio code.
Type ctrl+p and then search for something like *.py.
Simple and easy
If using vscodevim extension, ctrl + p won't work so I saw another answer using:
ctrl + shift + p
which opens the command palette. Hit backspace to remove the '>' and then start typing your filename.
Check your settings for 'Use Ignore Files' and 'Use Global Ignore Files'.
If these are checked, VSCode won't search any folders listed in .gitignore or .ignore
With VSCode 1.75 (Jan 2023), you will have a new file filter option: a 'Fuzzy Match' toggle.
That comes from issue 116286: Tree: Support continuous find
In a list of files I can filter them by start typing the name of the file. It is a super useful feature when you have hundreds+ files.
My issue is that the filter is trying to find the letters in the whole file name.
Here is an example search for word "file":
this-is-**file**-i-looked-for.jpeg (I expect this to be returned)
**f**or-th**i**s-**l**.jp**e**g (This should not be returned, it is only a random match)
Would it be possible to add there extra settings to only returns full strings matches? Or is there some setting already buried somewhere?
Solution: adding a 'Fuzzy Match' toggle button to the tree find widget.
New options:
defaultFindMatchTypeSettingKey.fuzzy: Use fuzzy matching when searching.
defaultFindMatchTypeSettingKey.contiguous': Use contiguous matching when searching.
I ended up installing the extension File Name Search. It displays in the side navigation bar all files that match a name part, so I can open them one by one to check them or process them.
Ctrl + p: we have to repeat the search for each file
Ctrl + f in the
explorer: it does not search, it just filters files in epanded
folders
Here is a demo of a search in explorer followed by a search in the Filename search extension:
Does Visual Studio Code have any way to copy the results of a search into a new window?
As a bonus, I'd really like to be able to drop the file name and just copy the lines containing the text of my search results to a new window.
For example, I'd like to to be able to copy the results of the search below to a new editor window. I don't mind if I need to install an extension to do it.
The following works for a single file:
CTRL + F
Type your search string
CTRL + SHIFT + L to select all occurrences found (max. 999)
ESC (or close search dialog with top-right X)
CTRL + I to select whole lines
CTRL + C
Open new file
CTRL + V
VSCode 1.23 added the ability to copy your search results, see release notes: copy search results.
The search results tree context menu includes three new options: Copy,
Copy Path, and Copy All. This was a highly 👍'd request which will
make it easier to share or export your search results.
The results are not very pretty or clickable when copied/pasted, so be forewarned. There is an issue tracking the "copy search results" format (see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/68877) and it is on the 2019 Roadmap (see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap#workbench) so hopefully it will be improved.
Update as of v1.41 you can move your search results to a new editor and easily select all and copy there. After searching (which can work across multiple files); click the "Open in Editor" link, as shown in this demo:
Another advantage of the search editor is that you can get "context" around your search result. So you can get some number of lines before and after the whole line with your search term in it. And, of course, line numbers will be copied too.
And you can just save Ctrl+S the search results editor itself! And cut lines from there. Or add notes. With syntax highlighting. It will ask where you want to save it, defaulting to the folder where you initiated the search. It will be named like yourFolder\yourSearchTerm.code-search.
For more info on the new search editor, see https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_43#_search-editors and
Select all occurrences of current selection
CTRL+SHIFT+L
https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf
As of 12/2020 CTRL + SHIFT + L doesn't work (for me)
After search results are rendered, right-click onto the text file and select "Change all occurrences"(or CTRL+F2). This will automatically select the the matched text items. Then you can simply copy it.
This will work for a single file, assuming each line you care about begins with the search text:
1. Highlight your search string
2. CTRL + SHIFT + L to select all occurrences found
3. SHIFT + ↓ to select all of those lines
4. CTRL + C
5. Open a new file
6. CTRL + V
There's now an "Open in editor" button under search inputs
Wrong. Per the document the correct format is to use Right Alt + Enter, the use Ctrl + C and then open a new tab and paste your results with Ctrl + V
Does Visual Studio Code have any way to copy the results of a search into a new window?
As a bonus, I'd really like to be able to drop the file name and just copy the lines containing the text of my search results to a new window.
For example, I'd like to to be able to copy the results of the search below to a new editor window. I don't mind if I need to install an extension to do it.
The following works for a single file:
CTRL + F
Type your search string
CTRL + SHIFT + L to select all occurrences found (max. 999)
ESC (or close search dialog with top-right X)
CTRL + I to select whole lines
CTRL + C
Open new file
CTRL + V
VSCode 1.23 added the ability to copy your search results, see release notes: copy search results.
The search results tree context menu includes three new options: Copy,
Copy Path, and Copy All. This was a highly 👍'd request which will
make it easier to share or export your search results.
The results are not very pretty or clickable when copied/pasted, so be forewarned. There is an issue tracking the "copy search results" format (see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/68877) and it is on the 2019 Roadmap (see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap#workbench) so hopefully it will be improved.
Update as of v1.41 you can move your search results to a new editor and easily select all and copy there. After searching (which can work across multiple files); click the "Open in Editor" link, as shown in this demo:
Another advantage of the search editor is that you can get "context" around your search result. So you can get some number of lines before and after the whole line with your search term in it. And, of course, line numbers will be copied too.
And you can just save Ctrl+S the search results editor itself! And cut lines from there. Or add notes. With syntax highlighting. It will ask where you want to save it, defaulting to the folder where you initiated the search. It will be named like yourFolder\yourSearchTerm.code-search.
For more info on the new search editor, see https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_43#_search-editors and
Select all occurrences of current selection
CTRL+SHIFT+L
https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf
As of 12/2020 CTRL + SHIFT + L doesn't work (for me)
After search results are rendered, right-click onto the text file and select "Change all occurrences"(or CTRL+F2). This will automatically select the the matched text items. Then you can simply copy it.
This will work for a single file, assuming each line you care about begins with the search text:
1. Highlight your search string
2. CTRL + SHIFT + L to select all occurrences found
3. SHIFT + ↓ to select all of those lines
4. CTRL + C
5. Open a new file
6. CTRL + V
There's now an "Open in editor" button under search inputs
Wrong. Per the document the correct format is to use Right Alt + Enter, the use Ctrl + C and then open a new tab and paste your results with Ctrl + V
I am used to Resharper where I can search for files, not the content, but the filename, which makes it quick to open new files.
Is this feature implemented in Visual Studio Code and is there a shortcut for it?
Using Go to File... which is under the Go menu or using keyboard shortcut:
On Windows Ctrl+p or Ctrl+e
On macOS Cmd ⌘+p
On Linux Ctrl+p or Ctrl+e
Then type the file name.
Also be sure to checkout that you can set your own keybindings and that there are cheatsheets available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Since the 1.70.0 release in July 2022, you can find and filter in tree views such as the Find Explorer. You can press Ctrl+F inside trees to pop up the Find control.
Before the 1.70.0 release
when you click anywhere in the explorer tree, and start typing something on the keyboard, the search keyword appears in the top right corner of the screen : ("module.ts")
And when you hover over the keyword with the mouse cursor, you can click on "Enable Filter on Type" to filter tree with your search !
On OSX, for me it's cmd ⌘ + p. cmd ⌘ + e just searches within the currently opened file.
Method1
Go->Go to File OR cntrl+p
Search your file
Method2
view->command palette OR cntrl+shift+p
type "Go to file"
Search your file
Win: CTRL+P or CTRL+E
Mac: CMD+P or CMD+E
Don't want to remember another shortcut?
Open the Command Palette:
Menu: View -> Command Palette
Windows Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+P
and hit backspace to delete ">" character and then begin typing to search for files via filename. :)
Other answers don't mention this command is named workbench.action.quickOpen.
You can use this to search the Keyboard Shortcuts menu located in Preferences.
On MacOS the default keybinding is cmd ⌘ + P.
(Coming from Sublime Text, I always change this to cmd ⌘ + T)
Also works in ubuntu with Ctrl+E
You can also press F1 to open the Command Palette and then remove the > via Backspace. Now you can search for files, too.
consider you have thousand of files in vs code and you want to search for a file with particular name then
Right click VS code editor.
Select Command Palete
In the text box type the file name
The problem with Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P) is that it searches your workspace while ignoring files and folders set in the .gitignore file. To change this behavior, add "search.useIgnoreFiles": false in your settings.json file under .vscode directory.
NOTE that search.exclude and files.exclude settings will override this. So, in your settings.json file, you should comment them out or set these two settings to false as well if you want to search all the files and directories in your VS Code project. An example for settings.json where search.exclude and files.exclude are commented out for searching all the files:
{
"search.exclude": {
//"**/Lib": true,
//"**/Scripts": true
},
"files.exclude": {
//"**/Lib": true,
//"**/Scripts": true
},
"search.useIgnoreFiles": false
}
Look here for more info.
I'm using VSCode 1.12.1
OSX press : Cmd + p
If you just want to search a single file name
Just Ctrl+P, then type and choose your one
If you want to open all files whose name contains a particular string
Open search panel
Put any common words inside those files
in 'files to include', put the search string with *, e.g. *Signaller*
For filtering in the tree on keyboard typing. The feature is deprecated. No more work.
No more of this old red inflexible box:
The replacement is way better and more interesting:
Actually not really. It could have been. The new way only filters on expanded folders only. And that's a shame. Check the last session for where the development is at. And for the options we are left with.
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_70#_tree-find-control
CMD + F (mac) or CTRL + F (else) [while focused]
No settings are needed. It just works. And more elegantly (except for the problem of only filtering searching through the visible expanded directories).
And for the default mode. highlight or filter. You can change that with:
"workbench.list.defaultFindMode": "highlight"
"workbench.list.defaultFindMode": "filter"
Only the open folders and visible elements Problem and what are we at?
It's great to know about this feature. But then you'll soon encounter the limitation it has at the moment.
Filtering only through open directories. It can help great. But then we want to filter through all. And when the project is big. That becomes totally unusable.
Issues: 1, 2, 3
We can see it's added to the backlog here:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/116286
duplicates: 1
You may think:
Expand all
Ok what about expanding all. Then using this.
===> That would work great => But => There is no such a feature of expanding all now.
Issues: 1, 2, duplicates: 1
Some configuration
At the moment no configuration does help!
"workbench.list.keyboardNavigation": "filter"
doesn't and many others. I tried them all. For the moment!
Extension that do that probably using web view
None exists. And to be implemented one needs to figure out the indexation used by vscode. Or implement its own indexation and then fuzzy search through using indexes. Otherwise something more simple that works for no big directories. Can be built fast. [I don't have time to do it myself. Especially that this would be resolved sometime in the future and we still can work with CTRL|CMD + P]
So that to clear for you the thoughts that you may get. And save you time.
Resume
So shortly we may see the feature of filtering all in a future version of vscode as it was added to the backlog. Right now we will be waiting. And maybe long enough.
Expand all seems not to be coming at any time or any time soon.
So what now. Left with nothing? Here a WORKAROUND
The now is => use CTRL|CMD + F on visible things. or on folders. By manually expanding them.
Or use CTRL|CMD + P without closing it. By following the next rules:
To open multiple files in the same editor. Navigate up and down and for each file use Right Arrow.
When they open they will be opened beside each other. You can use CMD|CTRL + ALT + LEFT | RIGHT to navigate between tabs left and right. Faster and better with the keyboard. The last open is the one you'll be at when you close the pallet.
To open a file in a new split editor use ALT + RIGHT ARROW.
Ref: 1
For windows.
if Ctrl+p doesn't always work
use Ctrl+shift+n instead.
To search for specifil file types in visual studio code.
Type ctrl+p and then search for something like *.py.
Simple and easy
If using vscodevim extension, ctrl + p won't work so I saw another answer using:
ctrl + shift + p
which opens the command palette. Hit backspace to remove the '>' and then start typing your filename.
Check your settings for 'Use Ignore Files' and 'Use Global Ignore Files'.
If these are checked, VSCode won't search any folders listed in .gitignore or .ignore
With VSCode 1.75 (Jan 2023), you will have a new file filter option: a 'Fuzzy Match' toggle.
That comes from issue 116286: Tree: Support continuous find
In a list of files I can filter them by start typing the name of the file. It is a super useful feature when you have hundreds+ files.
My issue is that the filter is trying to find the letters in the whole file name.
Here is an example search for word "file":
this-is-**file**-i-looked-for.jpeg (I expect this to be returned)
**f**or-th**i**s-**l**.jp**e**g (This should not be returned, it is only a random match)
Would it be possible to add there extra settings to only returns full strings matches? Or is there some setting already buried somewhere?
Solution: adding a 'Fuzzy Match' toggle button to the tree find widget.
New options:
defaultFindMatchTypeSettingKey.fuzzy: Use fuzzy matching when searching.
defaultFindMatchTypeSettingKey.contiguous': Use contiguous matching when searching.
I ended up installing the extension File Name Search. It displays in the side navigation bar all files that match a name part, so I can open them one by one to check them or process them.
Ctrl + p: we have to repeat the search for each file
Ctrl + f in the
explorer: it does not search, it just filters files in epanded
folders
Here is a demo of a search in explorer followed by a search in the Filename search extension:
Does Eclipse have a way to search a whole project for some text like Xcode's "find in project" feature?
1. Ctrl + H
2. Choose File Search for plain text search in workspace/selected projects
For specific expression searches, choose the relevant tab (such as Java Search which allows you to search for specific identifiers)
For whole project search:
3. Scope (in the form section) > Enclosing project (Radio button selection).
Ctrl + Alt + G can be used to find selected text across a workspace in eclipse.
OSX: ⌥ Option + ⌘ Command + G
Press Ctrl + H to bring up the search that includes options to search via project, directory, etc.
Ctrl+H.
Also,
Open any file quickly without browsing for it in the Package
Explorer: Ctrl + Shift + R.
Open a type (e.g.: a class, an interface) without clicking through
interminable list of packages: Ctrl + Shift + T.
Go directly to a member (method, variable) of a huge class file,
especially when a lot of methods are named similarly: Ctrl + O
Go to line number N in the source file: Ctrl + L, enter line number.
Ctrl + H is the best way!
Remember to copy the string before you start searching!
You should check out the new Eclipse 2019-09 4.13 Quick Search feature
The new Quick Search dialog provides a convenient, simple and fast way to run a textual search across your workspace and jump to matches in your code.
The dialog provides a quick overview showing matching lines of text at a glance.
It updates as quickly as you can type and allows for quick navigation using only the keyboard.
A typical workflow starts by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L
(or Cmd+Alt+Shift+L on Mac).
Typing a few letters updates the search result as you type.
Use Up-Down arrow keys to select a match, then hit Enter to open it in an editor.
CTRL + H is actually the right answer, but the scope in which it was pressed is actually pretty important.
When you have last clicked on file you're working on, you'll get a different search window - Java Search:
Whereas when you select directory on Package Explorer and then press Ctrl + H (or choose Search -> File.. from main menu), you get the desired window - File Search:
yes, but you need to open the global search panel. to do so, press the binoculars icon on the top right corner of the IDE.
you can even filter searches by function identifiers, method scopes an etc...
Choose File Search for plain text search in workspace/selected projects
For specific expression searches, choose the relevant tab (such as Java Search which allows to search for specific identifiers)
First customize your search dialog. Ctrl+H. Click on the Customize button and select inly File Search while deselecting all the others. Close the dialog.
Now you can search by selecting the word and hitting the Ctrl+H and then Enter.
yes, but you need to open the global search panel.
to do so, press the binoculars icon on the top right corner of the IDE.
you can even filter searches by function identifiers, method scopes an etc...
There is no way to do pure text search in whole work workspace/project via a shortcut that I know of (and it is a PITA), but this will find references in the workspace:
Put your cursor on what you want to lookup
Press Ctrl + Shift + g
There is very nice tool "Eclipse Quicksearch" available. Checkout SpringSource Update Site for Eclipse i.e: http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.6/ (you can try other versions replacing last part of URL with i.e. e4.4 or e4.5)
It works well with Neon Release (4.6.0). It gives you nice incremental text search with source file preview. I had no issues with it so far.
Usage:
Alt + s "Quick Search Command" opens "Quick Text Search" dialog. You can select whether search should be case sensitive or not. Really good tool.
Ctrl+H is very handy here. I mostly search in the current project, not the whole workspace. To find all occurences in the whole project of a string that is in your current buffer, just select the string press Ctrl+H and hit enter. Easy as that!
Use Resource Filters!
Eclipse will restrict the search result using the Resource Filters defined for your project (eg. right click on you project name and select Properties -> Resource -> Resource Filters). So if you keep getting search hits from parts of your project that your not interested in you could make Eclipse skip those by adding a Resource Filter for them. This is especially useful if you have build files or logs or other temporary files that are part of your projects directory structure, but you only want to search amongst the source code. You should also be aware of that files/directories matched for exclusion in the Resource Filters will not show up in the Package Explorer either, so you might not always want this.
Search and Replace'
Ctrl + F Open find and replace dialog
Ctrl + F / Ctrl + Shift + K Find previous / find next occurrence of search term (close find window first).
Ctrl + H Search Workspace (Java Search, Task Search, and File Search).
Ctrl + J / Ctrl+Shift +J Incremental search forward / backwards.
Type search term after pressing Ctrl+J, there is now search window
Ctrl+shift+O Open a resource search dialog to find any class
What others have forgotten is Ctrl+Shift+L for easy text search. It searches everywhere and it is fast and efficient. This might be a Sprint tool suit which is an extension of eclipse (and it might be available in newer versions)