Is there a way to search for a string in all files inside a project in Sublime Text 3? The string is not a method.
You can search a directory using Find → Find in files. This also includes all opened tabs.
The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl⇧+F on non-Mac (regular) keyboards,
and ⌘⇧+F on a Mac.
You'll be presented with three boxes: Find, Where and Replace. It's a regular Find/Find-replace search where Where specifies a file or directory to search. I for example often use a file name or . for searching the current directory. There are also a few special constructs that can be used within the Where field:
<project>,<current file>,<open files>,<open folders>,-*.doc,*.txt
Note that these are not placeholders, you type these verbatim.
Most of them are self-explanatory (e.g. -*.doc excludes files with a .doc extension).
Pressing the ... to the right will present you with all available options.
After searching you'll be presented with a Find results page with all of your matching results. To jump to specific lines and files from it you simply double-click on a line.
You can put <project> in "Where:" box to search from the current Sublime project from the Find in Files menu.
This is more useful than searching from the root folder for when your project is including or excluding particular folders or file extensions.
Solution:
Use the Search all shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+F, then select the folder in the "Where:" box below. (And for Mac, it's ⌘+Shift+F).
If the root directory for the project is proj, with subdirectories src and aux and you want to search in all subfolders, use the proj folder. To restrict the search to only the src folder, use proj/src in the "Where: " box.
Right click on your root folder, find in folder.
Here's the easiest way : File -> Find in files
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Recently I scaffolded a project with webapp generator. It created two files .gitignore and .gitattributes. Both show a file extention of type Text Document But when I press F12 to edit any one's name then it has empty name. Here is the snapshot:
My question is why don't window show the name as .gitignore?
There is nothing special with those files. This visual guide may help you.
Also in Windows 10 you may simply try this option in View Tab of Folder Explorer:
After looking and reading closer, it seems that the "problem" is that with the default settings of Explorer "known" file-name extensions (like e.g. .txt) are just not shown.
So if you name a file .txt (full file-name) then it will show up as empty and with no name.
Dot-files are not having any "extension" to their file-name. The full file-name of e.g. the Git ignore file is .gitignore.
It comes from the Unix world where file-names doesn't have to follow the DOS and Windows name.ext scheme, and means that the file is hidden.
Windows since long allows arbitrary file-names as well, but in a name.ext scheme such files doesn't have a "name" only an extension.
Windows interprets .gitignore as an empty file name with the extension "gitignore", and thus shows an empty name be default. To properly see its name, open the folder's properties and check the "Show All File Extensions" option.
I don't have an answer, but I have a preference. I'd prefer not to show all extensions just to be able to see my .gitignore files in Windows10 file explorer.
I'm hoping to extend OP's question by showing I DO SEE .babelrc and .eslintrc, and w/o seeing all file extension setting being set to "on".
It seems, on my own system, that the associations for BABELRC and ESLINT(RC|IGNORE) are, maybe, set automatically by VSCode? In any case, why can I see those "." files, while the in.json is showing with hidden extension, but I can't see .gitignore?
In the Find in Files dialog (Ctrl-Shift-F), is there any way to search only text files in Visual Studio 2012?
I am working on a website that has 100,000's of images.
When I search for a string apparently it searches through all the .jpg and other non-text files (unless you specify the file extension(s) which sometimes you can't do because you just can't tell where the string might appear)
The find-dialog gives you an option to restrict the search:
Find and Replace window has Look at these file types drop down control. You can write here file extension (*.txt, *.cs etc.) what you want to search in it.
Just add the file types filter should include .txt, .aspx, etc.
By default, textmate does not show all files and folders in the project drawer.
how do I make textmate project drawer show hidden files, in particular all files and directories beginning with a dot?
Click Preferences > Advanced > Folder References,
Edit File Pattern (minimal change to original default):
!(/\.(?!\W*)[^/]*|\.(tmproj|o|pyc)|/Icon\r|/svn-commit(\.[2-9])?\.tmp)$
as well as Folder pattern (minimal change to original default):
!.*/(\.(?!\W*)[^/]*|CVS|_darcs|_MTN|\{arch\}|blib|.*~\.nib|.*\.(framework|app|pbproj|pbxproj|xcode(proj)?|bundle))$
This only applies to new project folders. For an existing one, you need to edit the pattern after right-clicking on folder reference and choose Show Information.
7 years later, TextMate (v2.0.6) , shows these options:
default "Exclude files matching":
{*.{o,pyc},Icon\r,CVS,_darcs,_MTN,\}arch\},blib,*\~.nib}
default "Include files matching":
{*,.tm_properties,.htaccess}
Non-text files:
{*.{ai,bz2,flv,gif,gz,icns,ico,jpg,jpeg,m4v,nib,o,pdf,png,psd,pyc,rtf,scssc,swf,tar,tbz,tgz,tif,tiff,zip},Icon\r}
To show all hidden (MacOS) files+folders in file-browser pane of TextMate, what needs to be changed ?
goto TextMate > Preferences > Projects:
change the "Include..." box regex code into this:
{*,\.*}
as shown in below:
#Viktor Tron's answer is perfect... Just wanted to add this comment (but had a picture, so I'll add this answer)... Once you DO show "invisible" (.dot) files via his snazzy regex... you may want to weed some otherwise extraneous files that now clutter your projects hierarchy... Just do it via the specific project folder's "Show Information..." contextual menu...
In this example I want to IGNORE (fucking) .DS_Store files.. SO I simply add !\.DS_Store to the "File Pattern" section.
Is there any way to prevent the contents of .svn subdirectories to show up in Visual Studio Find in Files results?
An alternative would be to make it ignore hidden subdirectories.
According to the documentation for "Find in Files":
The Find and Replace tool does not search directories with the Hidden or System attribute set.
However, this seems to be only partially true. For VS to ignore hidden/system directories, the "Don't show hidden files, folders, and drives" option in Explorer must be set.
If you're like me, that's one of the first things you do on a Windows computer - change that setting to "Show hidden files, etc..." (along with showing extensions - it baffles me that anyone thinks that not showing extensions is a good idea or is less confusing than showing them).
Having files in the .svn metadata show up in search results is one of the very irritating things about using SVN and/or search tools that don't let you easily exclude the directories. Unfortunately, VS's "Find in Files" seems to be one of those irritants unless you're OK with to hiding the directories system-wide along with all other hidden files and directories.
Personally, I can usually get by with 'mentally' filtering those directories from the search results. If it's a particularly bad set of results, and you really, really need the filter, you can flip the setting in Explorer, perform the search , and change the setting back without having to reboot or restart VS or anything. That's a small consolation, but I was half expecting to have to restart VS for the setting change to take effect.
Also, if what you're really searching is the Project or Solution rather than an arbitrary location on the file system, you can tell "Find in Files" to search files in the Project/Solution as hunter suggested. But I assume that's not what you're searching, or you probably wouldn't be having this problem.
I believe you can do the following:
In the Find in Files dialog, click the [...] button next to Look In:
dropdown
In the Choose Search Folders dialog choose the folders you normally wish to search from the Available Folders section. Be sure not to select the .svn folder (mine appears to be only in the root folder, thankfully not in each sub-folder)
Click the > button to add them to the Selected folders.
In the Folder set dialog, give this set of folders a name e.g.
(Trunk)ProjectDatabaseFiles
Click Apply button then OK button
You can now select that set of folders by name in the Look In dropdown of the Find In Files dialog in there-by skipping any .svn files for the search
I've always worked on small enough apps where I did not need to include a directory for Textmate cmd + T searching. Now I'm working on a huge app; swear to god it has 100 route files. Have no idea why.
So now if I to a search for routes.rb, I get 100 results. What I want is to include the directory config so I don't get so many results.
How can I include directors in Textmate cmd + T searches such as config/routes.rb?
Maybe you will like the GoToFile bundle. It's like Command-T but the search string is matched on the directory name and file name, not just on the file name part.
I think 'Go To File' may work for you:
https://github.com/amiel/gotofile.tmbundle/
If you download it via GitHub, be sure to rename it to remove the hash at end of the extracted folder, so it's something like: 'amiel-gotofile.tmbundle' which you can just double click to install.
If you drag a folder from the Finder onto TextMate's icon in the dock, it will open that folder up as a project. You can then search the files within it using Edit>Find>Find in Project (Shift-Cmd-F).