[Tip] Incremental Search in Visual Studio

[Tip] Incremental Search in Visual Studio

John Bristowe - Telerik

26 Jun 2009 4:50 PM

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I didn't know about incremental search until someone showed me. Now I can't live without it.

Press Ctrl+I
Start typing the text you are searching for. Note: You'll see the cursor jump to the first match, highlighting the current search string.
Press Ctrl+I again to jump to the next occurrence of the search string
(advanced tip) Press Ctrl+Shift+I to search backwards
To stop searching, press ESC

Reposted from "Did You Know... Behold The Power of Incremental Search - #001" by Sara Ford, author of Microsoft Visual Studio Tips

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Lineker

29 Jun 2009 12:47 PM

tks for the tip :)

I really like it
Peter.O

29 Jun 2009 1:50 PM

This is easy snazzy, cool. Really. I wonder why it's hardly known. But I didn't wonder for long:

First, CTRL+I is particulary intuitive for search (tagging 'Incremental' to it may help me remember it's CTRL+I but otherwise does not help.

Second, it deserves some real estate on the Edit/Find and Replace fly out menu.