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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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Computers » Did you know… Ctrl+F3 searches for the currently-selected string without brining up the find window? said:

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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

xjb said:

本篇包括tip61-tip70

http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-7.html

#061、增大编...

# December 14, 2008 11:52 PM

Секреты Visual Studio said:

Выделите нужный текст (или просто установите курсор на слово, поиск по которому вы хотите осуществить)

# December 25, 2008 4:29 AM

Sara Ford's Weblog said:

Tip #0 Know your Keybindings! General Development Settings Searching Tips Tip #1 How to behold the power

# May 28, 2009 4:59 AM
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