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William Jockusch
William Jockusch

Reputation: 27285

Does a "Find in project..." feature exist in Eclipse IDE?

Does Eclipse have a way to search a whole project for some text like Xcode's "find in project" feature?

Upvotes: 764

Views: 457411

Answers (14)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323115

You should check out the new Eclipse 2019-09 4.13 Quick Search feature

The new Quick Search dialog provides a convenient, simple and fast way to run a textual search across your workspace and jump to matches in your code.

The dialog provides a quick overview showing matching lines of text at a glance.
It updates as quickly as you can type and allows for quick navigation using only the keyboard.

https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.13/images/quick-search.png

A typical workflow starts by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L
(or Cmd+Alt+Shift+L on Mac).
Typing a few letters updates the search result as you type.
Use Up-Down arrow keys to select a match, then hit Enter to open it in an editor.

Upvotes: 11

Jainendra
Jainendra

Reputation: 25143

Ctrl + Alt + G can be used to find selected text across a workspace in eclipse.

OSX: ⌥ Option + ⌘ Command + G

Upvotes: 99

Yuval Adam
Yuval Adam

Reputation: 165182

1. Ctrl + H
2. Choose File Search for plain text search in workspace/selected projects

For specific expression searches, choose the relevant tab (such as Java Search which allows you to search for specific identifiers)

For whole project search:

3. Scope (in the form section) > Enclosing project (Radio button selection).

Upvotes: 971

tlegutko
tlegutko

Reputation: 708

CTRL + H is actually the right answer, but the scope in which it was pressed is actually pretty important. When you have last clicked on file you're working on, you'll get a different search window - Java Search: enter image description here

Whereas when you select directory on Package Explorer and then press Ctrl + H (or choose Search -> File.. from main menu), you get the desired window - File Search: enter image description here

Upvotes: 6

Bob Ueland
Bob Ueland

Reputation: 1834

First customize your search dialog. Ctrl+H. Click on the Customize button and select inly File Search while deselecting all the others. Close the dialog.

Now you can search by selecting the word and hitting the Ctrl+H and then Enter.

Upvotes: 3

Pejman Saberin
Pejman Saberin

Reputation: 29

What others have forgotten is Ctrl+Shift+L for easy text search. It searches everywhere and it is fast and efficient. This might be a Sprint tool suit which is an extension of eclipse (and it might be available in newer versions)

Upvotes: 0

Emil Bäckmark
Emil Bäckmark

Reputation: 11

Ctrl+H is very handy here. I mostly search in the current project, not the whole workspace. To find all occurences in the whole project of a string that is in your current buffer, just select the string press Ctrl+H and hit enter. Easy as that!

Use Resource Filters! Eclipse will restrict the search result using the Resource Filters defined for your project (eg. right click on you project name and select Properties -> Resource -> Resource Filters). So if you keep getting search hits from parts of your project that your not interested in you could make Eclipse skip those by adding a Resource Filter for them. This is especially useful if you have build files or logs or other temporary files that are part of your projects directory structure, but you only want to search amongst the source code. You should also be aware of that files/directories matched for exclusion in the Resource Filters will not show up in the Package Explorer either, so you might not always want this.

Upvotes: 1

Marek Podyma
Marek Podyma

Reputation: 1073

There is very nice tool "Eclipse Quicksearch" available. Checkout SpringSource Update Site for Eclipse i.e: http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.6/ (you can try other versions replacing last part of URL with i.e. e4.4 or e4.5)

It works well with Neon Release (4.6.0). It gives you nice incremental text search with source file preview. I had no issues with it so far.

Usage: Alt + s "Quick Search Command" opens "Quick Text Search" dialog. You can select whether search should be case sensitive or not. Really good tool.

Upvotes: 2

Christophe Roussy
Christophe Roussy

Reputation: 16999

There is no way to do pure text search in whole work workspace/project via a shortcut that I know of (and it is a PITA), but this will find references in the workspace:

  1. Put your cursor on what you want to lookup
  2. Press Ctrl + Shift + g

Upvotes: 2

shubhz
shubhz

Reputation: 355

Ctrl+H.

Also,

  • Open any file quickly without browsing for it in the Package Explorer: Ctrl + Shift + R.

  • Open a type (e.g.: a class, an interface) without clicking through interminable list of packages: Ctrl + Shift + T.

  • Go directly to a member (method, variable) of a huge class file, especially when a lot of methods are named similarly: Ctrl + O

  • Go to line number N in the source file: Ctrl + L, enter line number.

Upvotes: 33

Jason McCreary
Jason McCreary

Reputation: 72961

Press Ctrl + H to bring up the search that includes options to search via project, directory, etc.

Upvotes: 82

Tam Dao
Tam Dao

Reputation: 435

Ctrl + H is the best way! Remember to copy the string before you start searching!

Upvotes: 15

jujuju
jujuju

Reputation: 59

yes, but you need to open the global search panel. to do so, press the binoculars icon on the top right corner of the IDE.

you can even filter searches by function identifiers, method scopes an etc...

  • Choose File Search for plain text search in workspace/selected projects
  • For specific expression searches, choose the relevant tab (such as Java Search which allows to search for specific identifiers)

Upvotes: 5

Shuky Capon
Shuky Capon

Reputation: 785

yes, but you need to open the global search panel. to do so, press the binoculars icon on the top right corner of the IDE.

you can even filter searches by function identifiers, method scopes an etc...

Upvotes: 2

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