Find and replace text in a file

Search text in the current document

1. Press Ctrl+F or choose Edit | Find | Find from the main menu. The search pane appears at the top of the active editor.

2. If necessary, specify the search options.

3. In the search field, start typing the search string:

   

   As you type, the first occurrence of the search string after the current caret position is selected; the other occurrences are highlighted in the editor. In addition, the matching occurrences are marked in the scrollbar with stripes.

4. To search for a multi-line fragment, click in the search field or press Ctrl+Shift+Enter

   To return to a single-line mode, press Backspace.

5. Explore the search results.

Replace text in the current file

1. Press Ctrl+R or choose Edit | Find | Replace from the main menu. The search and replace pane appears on top of the active editor.

2. If necessary, specify the search and replace options.

3. In the search field, start typing the search string. As you type, the matching occurrences are highlighted in the editor, and a Replace popup dialog opens at the first occurrence, suggesting to replace the current occurrence, or all of them, with an empty string.

4. Type the replacement string.

5. Click Replace All to replace all matching occurrences or Replace to replace items one by one.

6. Alternatively, you can click Exclude to skip the current occurrence and exclude it from the Replace all operation. The button for this occurrence changes to Include. Use   Shift+F3 and F3 to move focus to other occurrences that you want to exclude or include.

Explore the search results

• To initiate a new search, do one of the following (depending on the current focus):

  • If the editor has the focus, press Ctrl+F.

  • If the search field has the focus, press Ctrl+A

  In both cases, the existing search string will be selected, and you can start typing a new one.

• To jump between occurrences, do one of the following:

  • Press Shift+F3 (jump to previous selection) or F3 (jump to next selection).

  • Use the or buttons in the Search pane.

  • Click the gutter stripes.

• Next to the search field, you will see the total number of found occurrences and the number of the selected occurrence.

• You can click or press Alt+Down to show the list of recent search entries.

• Use Code completion in the Find and Replace panes. Start typing a search string, press Ctrl+Space, and select the appropriate word from the suggestion list.

• With the Find and Replace pane already opened, use Ctrl+R or Ctrl+F to toggle between panes. Thus, the search and replace strings are preserved.

• To close the search pane and switch the focus to the editor, press Escape.

• When you press Escape and return the focus to the editor, the first search match stays selected, so you can copy Ctrl+C or cut Ctrl+X it, or start typing to replace the selection.

  You can also add multiple carets and selection ranges to the occurrences of the search string — click Alt+J and Alt+Shift+J to select or unselect occurrences one by one, or click Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J to select all occurrences.