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Did you know... Ctrl+F3 searches for the currently-selected string without brining up the find window? - #070

Just select some text (or just have the cursor on the word you wish to search for) and press Ctrl+F3.  Ctrl+Shift+F3 will do a reverse search.

CtrlF3

Note that a Ctrl+F3 search uses the following options: 

  • is case sensitive
  • searches hidden text
  • allows for partial matching
  • does not use regular expressions
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Posted: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:00 AM by saraford

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# October 26, 2007 6:31 AM

Meile Zetstra said:

I thought that Ctrl+F3 would use the settings that you currently hold in the general Find window. So if you would uncheck 'Search hidden text', Ctrl+F3 will skip the hidden text.

I may be wrong,...

Meile

# October 26, 2007 6:59 AM

Tim said:

F3/Ctrl-F3 rocks!

This is one of those mission critical features for me :-)

Along with F2/Ctrl-F2 for bookmarks (sorry if I just spoiled a future TotD), and properly stacking Ctrl-Tab behaviour.

I've been using PHPEd recently (VS sucks for PHP, sorry) and they only just got proper Ctrl-Tab behaviour working, which had been driving me mad.  Now if they can just get bookmarks working in a sensible way...

It's funny how much I judge other editors against about 10 features of VC6 which were just so right that they let me fly when programming.  Sadly successive iterations of VS seem to take away one each of these features, and that makes baby Jesus sad.

# October 26, 2007 8:26 AM

Jason Haley said:

# October 26, 2007 11:27 AM

MarcT said:

I use this command constantly, and I love it. With F3 mapped to the "back" button on my 5-button mouse, I don't even have to contort my left hand. To nitpick, I'm pretty sure it just uses whatever options you currently have selected in the Quick Find window - at least, I know I just did a non-case-sensitive search...

# October 26, 2007 12:26 PM
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