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[Tip] Incremental Search in Visual Studio

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

  1. Press Ctrl+I
  2. Start typing the text you are searching for. Note: You'll see the cursor jump to the first match, highlighting the current search string.
  3. Press Ctrl+I again to jump to the next occurrence of the search string
  4. (advanced tip) Press Ctrl+Shift+I to search backwards
  5. 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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Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:50 PM by John Bristowe
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Lineker said:

tks for the tip :)

I really like it

# June 29, 2009 12:47 PM

Peter.O said:

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.

# June 29, 2009 1:50 PM
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