In Visual Studio 2010, the behavior of incremental search was:
Ctrl+I
Type your search characters
Click somewhere else to quit incremental search
To search again using the same search: Ctrl+I, Ctrl+I
In Visual Studio 2013, the behavior of repeating incremental search is removed:
Ctrl+I
The search box opens
If you want to repeat the previous incremental search, hitting Ctrl+I works as Tab since the search box has the keyboard focus, bringing up the previous text from a Ctrl+F search.
Is there a way to go back to the Visual Studio 2010 way of handling repeated incremental searches? I.e., not bringing up the search box.
Thanks!
Peter, the keyboard jockey
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In visual studio 2019, if you click a word, it will highlight all its occurrences.
But if click some blank place, it will de-highlight all.
I only want to highlight the words when double-clicking it, and de-highlight the words if I double click it again.
It differs for each programming language. For C/C++ it's:
Tools/Text Editor/ C/C++ /Advanced/Disable Reference Highlighting (in
References section)
"MultiWordHighlight" is a great extension which can replace visual studio's internal feature.
I have previously been able to highlight text in visual studio, and the press ctrl+F, and the highlighted text will automatically be added as my search term.
All of a sudden (I don't recall changing anything), this behaviour is broken. When I highlight text, and press ctrl+F, the search box opens, but remains empty.
I am running visual studio 2012.
There's an option that controls that:
"Automatically populate Find What with text from the editor" in Options -> Find and Replace
I have a problem with Visual Studio 2010 when I try to find all some phrase word.
You can see, I tried to find "header-logo", but Visual Studio couldn't find it having "header-logo" beside the finding box (aspx file), but Visual Studio doesn't display it.
The same with other type files. It just shows the matched phrase in the CSS file.
What is the reason?
"Find was stopped in progress"
Visual Studio "Find in Files" does not work
I solve it by hitting Ctrl + Break, but you have to do it just right: hold Ctrl, press Break, release Break, and release Ctrl.
You can also reboot. I know it seemed unlikely to help in this case, but before the problem and solution were as well understood, there were a lot of people rebooting to solve it...
In Sublime Text et al, you can type Control-P to do an incremental file search.
In Visual Studio 2010:
Control-i does incremental text search
Control-, does incremental symbol search
Control-Shift-f, does Find All Files
What I would like is an incremental version of Control-Shift-F.
Does such a thing exist?
Visual studio 2017 comes with this feature (called Edit.GoToAll). The default mapping is Ctrl + T or Ctrl + ,.
To change it click Tools -> Options and then under Environment/Keyboard search for GoToAll and assign Ctrl + P:
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/whats-new-in-visual-studio#experience-improved-navigation-controls
Found these two:
Resharper:
Similar to Go to Type, Go to File (Ctrl+Shift+N) navigates you to any file within your solution. All the same search techniques and wildcards are supported.
VsFileNav
More than a year is passed, so if you switched to VS 2012 I recommed this: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/5437f2e7-adef-44e2-b841-78be850e763e
While using NotePad++, and select a certain word, it automatically highlights all matched words?
Does anyone know if there is a Visual Studio addin that can do this? or are there any hidden environment setting that can do this?
Check following addins
Productivity Power Tools addin
The background colour of the highlight in Productivity Power Tools is found under Tools->Options->Productivity Power Tools->Enhanced Scroll Bar->Words Matching The Caret Location Color In The Editor.
or
Use Highlight selected word addin.
I believe Visual Assist can do that. This can be switched on in Settings -> Refactoring -> Automatically highlight references to symbol under cursor.
This is something that is automatically done by VS 2010 though if you are using an older version of VS you can get that functionality with third-party addins. For example I used to use an add-in called RockScroll that could highlight usages in a source file (By double clicking on the word) http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingRockScroll.aspx.
Also ReSharper has that functionality built into it with Cntl + Shft + F7