I am searching my Javascript file for certain text. I entered that text into the search box, and it helpfully tells me that there are four matches. So far, so good. But how can I go to the next/previous match?
Just hit Return and Shift-Return.
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Chromium, for example, displays the number of times that a search term a user has entered in Find appears on a web page.
My use case is simple: when I search in Kate I would like to know how many times my search term appears in the document I am searching.
Yes: Switch to Search & Replace mode via Ctrl+R and click on Find All. Then a popup will appear displaying the total number of found matches.
Very often while coding, I need to search for keywords which are common and happen throughout a large file, but I am looking for an instance within a function.
The default search functionality often gives me all results starting from the top. Is there any way/workflow to search only within a specific method/function or block of code?
Update
Do Ctrl + F
Then Ctrl + Alt + E
Type the text to search
On MacOS, it's cmd instead of Ctrl
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You can do it like this (mentioned keymaps are for Linux):
Let's take as an example the following code, where we will be searching for the word "key" inside the method "clear". As you can see there are many occurrences of that word (in red, highlighted the ones we want in our results, and in blue other occurrences, which we do not want to appear in our search results)
1- Select the area you want to limit the search scope to.
2- Press Ctrl+Shift+F. It will pop up a search window with the selected text pre-filled in the search box.
3- Select the options "Scope" and, in the combo next to it, "Selection" (if they are not selected by default)
4- Type the word(s) you want to search (in this example, the key word).
5- The results shown will be limited to the selected area. Notice how there are only 9 matches in the upper right corner ("Match case" option is checked), despite in the same file there are many other occurrences of the same word.
However, I was neither able to find a key combination in order to do this as a single action nor assign a new one. Also, notice how the search includes the text in the method documentation.
Tested using IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.4 (Ultimate Edition), Build #IU-181.5087.20 on Ubuntu 18.04
Looks like we're finally getting this feature in IDEA 2019.3:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2019/09/whats-new-in-intellij-idea-2019-3-eap-2/ (Ctrl-F for subtitle "Ability to search in a selected area when using the Find action")
It’s now possible to search only in a selected area using the Find action (cmd+F / Ctrl +F). Simply select the code piece you need in the editor and invoke the Find action and the IDE will perform the search only in the selected area.
Screenshot from the article (was a GIF originally)
There is a way to search inside a method, however, it doesn't seem to work for other scopes.
When searching in file as usual, click "Find all"
You'll get a list of results in the bottom panel. If you enable "Group by file structure" (I had it disabled by default), you can get a list of matches for a particular method.
On IntelliJ in Mac:
In a file select the specific block in which we want to find
something
Press CMD + F
Press CTRL + OPTION + G
Notice that the cursor has automatically landed in the find toolbar's text field
Type in what is intended to be found
Press enter to move the cursor
to the first occurrence.
What I mean in the title is if I want to looking for just only the part of formula's word such as =ArrayFormula( in one hit from the menu bar like Search > Formula.
When pressing Ctrl+F the search dialog appears
Clicking on the three dots makes a dialog appear.
By default formulas' contents are not searched
Ticking "Also Search within Formulae" will change the display of all cells containing formulae and search those too.
I remember hearing about the option to search for an exact word in Sublime, but I can't seem to find it.
What I mean by this is if I search for write, I'd like to exclude all instances of foo_write, foowrite, etc.
How can this be done?
Hit CtrlF (Win/Lin) or CmdF (OS X) to open up the Find tab. Make sure the first button on the left (Regular Expressions) is selected. In the search field, enter \bfoo\b and click the Find button or hit CtrlG/CmdG to search. The \b token indicates a word boundary, including spaces, punctuation marks like commas, periods/full stops, question marks, etc.
Also, the third button from the left, a pair of double quotes, says 'Whole Word' when you hover - Click this to find the exact word.
E.g., if I search for 'stage' it will return the line that contains the text 'when the stage changes' but not the line that contains the text '= b.stage__c'
I have a search people search page that makes use of RefineSearchResults where I can define which field I want the search refined by. This is setup and works to some extent, but I am experiencing problems whenever the column contains values with spaces in it.
Say I wanted to refine the search by OfficeNumber (from AD, not really a number) and I choose to refine the search by "Main" it works just fine, I only get people who have that OfficeNumber. However, if I try to refine the search by "Next door" I get no results and in the search box it shows: officenumber:Next door, which seems to indicate that it searches by Next instead of Next door, but I can't make any group markers such as " stick - it's gone when I hit enter.
Is there any way to fix this so that it can refine the search by values with spaces in them?