Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Incremental Find in Eclipse - Shane Bell
Incremental Find in Eclipse - Shane Bell
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2006
INCREMENTAL FIND IN ECLIPSE
Those of you who use will be familar with it's fantastic
incremental find feature. Just hit / and start typing your search
term and Firefox will search for it as you type.
It's one of those features that after a while you just can't live
without. On the rare occasions that I'm forced to use IE, I'm always
disappointed when I have to revert to the old Ctrl-f find.
So you can imagine my joy when I discovered that has this same
feature. It's been there all along, I just never knew.
While you're editing a file, just hit Ctrl-j to enter the incremental
find mode (you should see "Incremental Find" in the status bar if all
is well). Then just type the text you're looking for and Eclipse will
jump to the first instance of that text. Ctrl-k will find the next
match, and Esc will get you out of incremental find mode.
Add that one to your bag of tricks and you'll save yourself 20
minutes a day :)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2006
INCREMENTAL FIND IN ECLIPSE
Those of you who use will be familar with it's fantastic
incremental find feature. Just hit / and start typing your search
term and Firefox will search for it as you type.
It's one of those features that after a while you just can't live
without. On the rare occasions that I'm forced to use IE, I'm always
disappointed when I have to revert to the old Ctrl-f find.
So you can imagine my joy when I discovered that has this same
feature. It's been there all along, I just never knew.
While you're editing a file, just hit Ctrl-j to enter the incremental
find mode (you should see "Incremental Find" in the status bar if all
is well). Then just type the text you're looking for and Eclipse will
jump to the first instance of that text. Ctrl-k will find the next
match, and Esc will get you out of incremental find mode.
Add that one to your bag of tricks and you'll save yourself 20
minutes a day :)
