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trejder
trejder

Reputation: 17495

How to navigate between instances of selected text in Sublime Text 3?

Sublime Text 3 highlights all instances of currently selected text. Is there any shortcut to navigate cursor to the next / previous instance (copy) of selected text?

So far, I've only managed to find out some information about adding more instances to current selection (expanding it) with Ctrl+D, skipping current instance (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D) and deselecting it (Ctrl+U), which actually is a soft undo, not a real command.

I can use Ctrl+D to go to next instance of selected text and Ctrl+U to undo. But, since these shortcuts operates on selection, this is not, what I'm looking for.

Actually, I'm asking, is there any way to have this as simple as pressing Alt+Right to go to the next instance or Alt+Left to go to previous.

If this is not solved by default, then what commands should be tied to user-defined keyboard shortcuts?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 7068

Answers (4)

Florent Daligand
Florent Daligand

Reputation: 81

I also needed to navigate through occurrences of a word in a quicker way than:

  • Ctrl + F
  • Type world to find
  • Press F3 to find next occurrence.

And I just found this tip:

  • Select occurrence
  • Ctrl+F3 to find next occurrence, or Ctrl+Shift+F3 for the previous one.
  • At this point the occurrence is already the search text, so you can simply use F3 for next one and Shift+F3 for previous, if you need to navigate between more occurrences.

I hope this also helps you.

Upvotes: 6

Cam
Cam

Reputation: 375

I'm on a mac, and this has sort of already been mentioned, but it doesn't require altering the hotkey menu and works well enough for me.

cmd+K keeps your highlight but deselects it

cmd+D expands your selection (now empty thanks to cmd+k) by including the next occurrence

highlight a string (one that recurs)

while holding cmd -> press K, then press D

alternating back and forth as many times as necessary.

Each time D is alternated to, your highlight and selection jump to only the next occurrence.

Upvotes: 1

Arthur
Arthur

Reputation: 462

Yes, all you need to do is edit your key bindings (Sublime Text -> Preferences -> Key Bindings User) for "find_under". Copy & paste this into your bindings and set your keys (defaults are "alt+super+g" and shift+alt+super+g) 

{ "keys": ["alt+super+g"], "command": "find_under" },
{ "keys": ["shift+alt+super+g"], "command": "find_under_prev" },

Upvotes: 20

jwpfox
jwpfox

Reputation: 5232

I may be misunderstanding your question but what you are asking seems pretty simple and I wonder if that means you might mean something else. Anyway here's an answer that I hope is what you are looking for.

First, ensure that you have the following set to true in your preferences:

// If true, the selected text will be copied into the find panel when it's
// shown.
// On OS X, this value is overridden in the platform specific settings, so
// you'll need to place this line in your user settings to override it.
"find_selected_text": true,

Select the string you are interested in.

Search in current file [OS X Cmd+F :: Windows Ctrl+F]

Now you can step through the matches:

  • Forward [OS X Cmd+G :: Windows F4]
  • Back [OS X Cmd+Shift+G :: Windows Shift+F4]

Some more here :: http://www.cheatography.com/njovin/cheat-sheets/sublime-text-2-keyboard-shortcuts-windows/

What am I missing in your question?

Upvotes: 4

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