Everytime I search in VS Code the regex button is not selected. This often yields in me wondering, why nothing has been found.
Is there a way, that this button is selected by default, so that I don't have to activate it manually everytime?
I found this setting: Features » Search » "Search Editor: Reuse Prior Search Configuration"
Instead of configuring default values, the search dialogue basically remembers the last used settings. It has the drawback, that you have to remember to reset the defaults, after a search with different settings. But it’s still better, than to have to have to set up the default values everytime before a search.
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Is it possible to get the VS 2012 find dialog to always use Current Document and reset case & whole-word when I press Ctrl+F? Currently it remembers my last options and I often forget to turn them off.
Also it sometimes switches to All open documents on its own which totally throws me off. I haven't yet figured out why or when this happens.
I've searched for registry keys and extensions but so far nothing useful has turned up.
It's not possible to get the dialog or the quick find UI to always choose a specific scope out of the box. During beta of VS 2012, this behavior was implemented where CTRL+F would always set the scope to Current Document and Ctrl+Shift+F would set the scope Entire Solution upon invocation of the commands. A lot of users were unhappy with this behavior, so it was reverted. There are no registry keys that you can set to alter this behavior.
Visual Studio always tries to reuse the last used scope. There are circumstances at which that scope is not available, and that'll cause the IDE to change the scope on you. Let's suppose you do a search in "Current Project", after that you close the entire solution and then invoke the dialog. The scope will have to change to something else.
You probably know about this, but Ctrl+F3 will search for the word that is under the caret and it'll always perform that search with the Whole Word option on in the current document. Perhaps that'll suit your needs.
I've published a Visual Studio "SmartFind" extension to fix this issue.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/015611c4-b357-4672-8977-f3ec92f0b808
I like to use the Find in Path function CTRL+SHIFT+F, that searches for text strings in several files.
One thing I often run into though, is that I search for something that I know exists in at least one file, I get zero results or I find just some of the files that contain the search term.
Then I realise that the Scope setting in the Find Dialog box has been set to Module or Directory for some reason rather that "Whole project" which is what I almost always want.
What fools me here is that this only seems to happen occasionally - often I'll have the scope set to Whole project like I want to, but sometimes it will be something else.
How does IntelliJ decide which scope to use?
Also, is there some setting that can be used to force IntelliJ to always select "Whole project" as the default?
Just collapse the project tab before: Command + 1 or Alt + 1
The default selection depends on the context which launched the search. If you have the project tab open with a folder/file selected it will search in that folder or the parent of that file.
To search by default just close that panel (this will make the context be the whole project) and press the search shortcut and it will be scope properly.
Not really a solution, but how to avoid using the mouse for this:
When the dialog is open, press Alth before pressing enter. This will cause the scope to be set to Whole project.
i.e. to show a value (let's say, for the purpose of this example, set tabstop? ... 8), but when that value changes to show the changed value?
I'm playing with Vim to see if I could setup a menu which would display some of my more used settings to save up on set setting? ... any ideas?
I also find it a little bit unusual to put settings values into the menu (a menu item usually is associated with an action that is triggered by selecting it), and would also recommend using either the 'statusline' (for settings that you want to see in parallel for each open buffer) or 'titlestring' (for settings that you only need for the current buffer).
You can use the :menu and :unmenu command to dynamically create and update menu items. Unlike the above mentioned mechanisms, however, Vim will not automatically trigger the updates; you have to do this with :autocmds on the appropriate events (e.g. CursorHold) yourself.
In an existing code base, the call to parse dates depends on the machine's culture. I created a custom resharper search/replace pattern that can spot and fix these calls.
Is there a way quickly find and fix all the hits of this search replace pattern? I'm now doing them one by one and it's going to take forever ...
Isn't the 'Global Fix' at the end of that very blog post you link to exactly what you want?
Global Fix What we’ve just done is a manual local fix,
that is, locate the offending entry and hit Alt+Enter to apply a
QuickFix. We can do this at a global scope by using the
Pattern Catalog tool window.
1. Undo the prefix fix (so as to have several instances) 2.
Open up the Patterns Catalog 3. Select the
recently created Pattern and click on Search now.
This time, instead of the Find Results dialog, we get a Replace dialog
which displays all matching patterns and a Replace
button
4. We can select
the entries we want replacing (by default all checked). Click
Replace We’re done! ReSharper will now
replace all occurrences. So we’ve applied a QuickFix
globally.
Kind of a newbie question.
Sometimes I use the project-wide search feature, and my search results appear listed in the window below, along with the related hierarchy placement.
Let's say I double click a file. It opens. Fine.
However, if I double-click again on another file in the search results window, it will replace the file I just opened. It's impossible for me to open multiple search results, short of manually opening them from the project view.
It wasn't always this way - it worked when I first installed the program, but something changed about three days in and I can't do it anymore.
Thanks!
Go to Preferences > General > Search and uncheck Reuse editors to show matches.