April 20, 2007 3 Comments

Quick text search in Eclipse

Completely by mistake I stumbled across this one. You can super rapidly search for text in the currently open file without CTRL-F`ing and typing the text there. The condition is that you already have an instance of that text. For me, it usually happens that I need to go through the instances of a variable in the source code.

Step 1

Select the text you want to search for.

Step 2
Hit CTRL+K

Step 3

Be amazed.

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3 comments so far

Harshdeep April 22, 2007 7:56 pm

That would be Ctrl+F3 in Visual Studio. Shift+F3 to search backwards.
Julian November 22, 2007 8:42 am

I’m amazed that it’s not a single key for such an important and common task.
Eclipse is amazingly unusable in it’s default configuration.
Clau November 24, 2007 2:42 pm

I managed to get myself accustomed to its default configuration, but I love the fact that it is highly configurable.

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