In Sublime Text 3, I could press Ctrl + D twice while variable is highlighted and I could rename them on the fly while I see them changed as I type without opening any UI like Shift + F6 does in WebStorm.
Is this possible in WebStorm I mean pressing a shortcut twice and renaming all occurrences quickly?
ShiftF6 will rename all possible occurrences in your proj.
CtrlSHIFTALTJ will select all the occurrence of the word you selected without UI.
CTRLR will do a search and replace in the current active editor.
Please refer to the official docs of Jetbrains Webstorm for more info: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/documentation/
I have the following line in a file I'm editing in VSCode:
...............111.........111.............111..
I want to replace all .s with 0s. However, when I highlight the line and do a find/replace for .s, all the .s in the document are replaced, not just the ones in the line I've select, even when I toggle the "Find in selection" button. Is this a bug? In other editors, if I select a chunk of text and then do a find/replace, it will only find/replace matches within the selected block.
Below is a snippet that you should be able to reproduce the issue with. The ...............111.........111.............111.. line is inside the test_unicode function.
def test_simple2(self):
"""Simple CSV transduction test with empty fields, more complex idx, different pack_size.
100011000001000 ->
..........111....................111..........11111..........111..
"""
field_width_stream = pablo.BitStream(int('1000110001000001000', 2))
idx_marker_stream = pablo.BitStream(int('11101', 2))
pack_size = 4
target_format = TransductionTarget.JSON
csv_column_names = ["col1", "col2", "col3", "col4", "col5"]
pdep_marker_stream = pablo.BitStream(generate_pdep_stream(field_width_stream,
idx_marker_stream,
pack_size, target_format,
csv_column_names))
self.assertEqual(pdep_marker_stream.value, 63050402300395548)
def test_unicode(self):
"""Non-ascii column names.
Using UTF8. Hard coded SON boilerplate byte size should remain the same, column name
boilerplate bytes should expand.
100010010000000 ->
2 + 4 + 9 2 + 4 + 6 2 + 4 + 7
...............111.........111.............111..
"""
field_width_stream = pablo.BitStream(int('100010001000', 2))
idx_marker_stream = pablo.BitStream(1)
pack_size = 64
target_format = TransductionTarget.JSON
csv_column_names = ["한국어", "中文", "English"]
pdep_marker_stream = pablo.BitStream(generate_pdep_stream(field_width_stream,
idx_marker_stream,
pack_size, target_format,
csv_column_names))
self.assertEqual(pdep_marker_stream.value, 1879277596)
I'm using VSCode 1.12.2 in Ubuntu 16.04.
I was able to get it to work but the workflow is poor:
control + H to open Find/Replace
Select your line of text
Click the "Find in selection" icon to the right Alt L or ⎇ ⌘ L on macOS)
Enter your find and replace characters in their inputs
Click the Replace all icon
It works but you have to go through the workflow all over again for each new selection (except for CTR + H of course). BTW I have the exact same behavior in Sublime Text.
Could you go with a regExp to find your lines? Do they contain only .'s and 1's?
This is a more general answer for other users who come here just wanting to use basic find and replace functionality.
On Mac you can press Command + Option + F to open Find and Replace:
Alternatively, you can press Command + F to open Find and then click the little triangle on the left to show the Replace field:
From the VSCode devs:
We used to enable find in selection automatically when opening the
find widget with a selection, but it was too easy to trigger
accidentally and produced a lot of complaints. You probably want to
set "editor.find.autoFindInSelection": true which will make it work
the way you expect.
The VSCode GitHub issue has more details if anyone is interested.
EDIT: The autoFindInSelection option is available starting from VSCode 1.13. That version is currently in development (as of 6/7/2017), so this fix won't work until the new version is released.
I found the following workflow to be fairly painless:
Select text region with mouse or keyboard.
Ctrl+H to toggle find and replace
Alt+L to toggle find in selection
Ctrl+Alt+Enter to replace all (or enter to replace individually)
Since sometimes we might have similarly named things so you don't want to select everything, one of my favorites shortcut sequences is to select the next occurrence:
Use shift and arrows to highlight the term you want to match.
Use Ctrl + d to highlight the next occurrence of the term.
The Basic Editing in VS Code documentation page has some extremely useful variations on find and replace. One extremely useful shortcut is the Column (Box) Selection.
Just ran into this, my solution was to do
command + N to create a new file
paste my selection in there
do my find and replace operations on that while file
copy result back on top of my original selection
On Mac:
Select the text
Press command + shift + L
For mac
Press command + option + f to bring up this menu:
Press the little icon that has the arrow pointing at it above (3 horizontal bars)
Select the text you want to do a find and replace in, and enter the 'find' and 'replace' fields
Press this icon:
That's all!
In 2022, there's a bug to be wary of 🐛
There is a silent bug (I'll add more about this as I learn more about it). But sometimes find and replace within selection doesn't find the values, even if you can see them with your own eyes. This is dangerous because you could think you've replaced them all but it really hasn't.
So do these two things:
a visual check after doing a find and replace (to make sure it worked)
if vscode completely ignores you (and doesn't do the find and replace within selection after you've followed the above instructions), close the find and replace box by pressing the "x" in the corner, and retry the sequence of steps (it worked for me after closing and retrying).
Okay, this is really dumb, at first I felt really stupid when I finally found this, then I realized its just VS Code which has a bad interface.
The key is, there are TWO TOOLS here,
Search/Replace (the pane on the left at the top of the Explorer) and Find/Replace (which is a dialogue which opens when you press CTRL-F)
THESE ARE NOT THE SAME TOOL!!
SEARCH-REPLACE is a tool written for project-wide searches and
changes
FIND-REPLACE is a small dialogue best suited for more
surgical editing.
i.e. you should use FIND-REPLACE!
find replace window image with find-in-selection highlighted
Also, its SUPER IMPORTANT to follow these steps in the right order, or it doesn't give the expected results.
Press CTRL-F to open the find dialogue (usually opens in the top right)
press the little arrow to the right of the find field which opens the replace input field
ensure "find in selection" is turned off (i.e. not highlighted)
type in the fields the strings you want to search/replace
select the text you want to do a search/replace within.
Now press "find in selection" (or type ALT-L)
You should see only highlighting in the area you previously selected.
Now you can click either "replace all" (CTRL-ALT-ENTER) or line-by-line "replace" (ENTER)
I hope this helps.
My suggestion to VSC developers, there should be a refresh button so that after you have selected the area of interest, and you already have your find and replace strings defined, you can select a new region and click "refresh find" instead of needing to repeat steps 3 to 8.
For those where it still does not work, there is one step omitted in all of the above answers: Uncheck "Find in selection" if it is checked (which it probably is when you are struggling with it and in despair googled the problem, and then found this SO entry). Only then select the lines and then re-check "Find in selection".
For Ubuntu, highlight the lines where you want to make changes, press alt-L and then ctrl-H. Then type the name you want to replace and replacement name in the top right dropdown.
Or some combination of these actions depending on whether the dropdown is already open or you're already in alt-L mode. I'm still learning but thought I'd share what's working.
Been trying to get this one done for some time and couldn't find a solution.
The annoying issue I got is that when I open my x.txt notepad file everything is in line, organized, well arranged however when I do open it with notepad++ everything gets messed up. Here is a quick example (left notepad++/right notepad, same file) http://prntscr.com/9ypxcm
Some of the files get the same view format and style in both notepad and notepad++ (probably they were created originally in notepad++?) however some of my other text documents get really messed into notepad++ and I just hate simple windows notepad when it comes to text editing.
Would appreciate some help. Thank you
I just checked for How much spaces does a tab takes in both ?.
Notepad++ takes 4 spaces to constitute 1 tab.
Windows Notepad takes 6 spaces to constitute 1 tab.
Therefore when a file which is first edited in Windows Notepad ( 6 spaces-tab ) is opened in Notepad++, the tab is converted to 4 spaces reducing 2 spaces. That's why everything gets messed up
Solution
1) This is same file opened in two editors.
2) Now go as directed
Settings --> Preferences --> Tab Settings --> normal.
Uncheck the Use default value.
Click on Tab size. A small input box will appear.Input 6 as value and press Enter.
3) The tabs are now properly formatted.
I have some text documents (.doc and .odf) with portions of colored code appearing inside.
This code was copied as RTF from Notepad++, that's how it got colored.
However, in Notepad++ (and in many IDEs as well), the line wrap function works makes the indented code look better when in does not fit and goes to the next line.
In LibreOffice/OpenOffice and Ms Word it's possible to achieve a similar line wrap with the "increase indent" button.
So, what I'd like to do, is to automatically replace the tabs (or 4 spaces, if you like) with proper indents. Or make the tabs behave like I expect them to. Is it possible? Thanks.
Here's a visualization of the problem
I achieved what I want through some (not that many) manual steps.
find out what is the maximum number of tabs (or sets of 4 spaces), say it's 3
open the search and replace window, input 3 tabs (or 12 spaces), and click "Find All"
now all groups of 3 tabs are selected, and you are working on all the lines with maximum indentation
park or close the search and replace window, click 3 times on the "Increase indent" button (or set the left indentation in the paragraph style menu)
delete the selected groups of 3 tabs
open the search and replace window, input 2 tabs (or 8 spaces), and click "Find All"
park or close the search and replace window, click 2 times on the "Increase indent" button
delete the selected groups of 2 tabs
open the search and replace window, input 1 tabs (or 4 spaces), and click "Find All"
park or close the search and replace window, click 1 time on the "Increase indent" button
delete the selected single tabs
Now you have a nice code indentation.
If you are using Microsoft Word, then there's no "find all", but there is a way to apply paragraph styles directly from the search and replace menu. But the steps are a little different.
First decide how wide a single indentation should be (e.g. 0.5 cm)
open the find and replace window, input 3 tabs (or 12 spaces) in the Find bar
leave the Replace bar empty, but click on it
if you don't see the Search options group, click More
click on Format
click on Paragraph
set a left indentation of 3 * the indentation width you want (e.g. 1.5 cm)
click Replace All, the paragraph style will be applied but the tabs/spaces will NOT be removed
click on the empty Replace bar (again)
click No Formatting
click on Replace All (again)
now the tabs/spaces will be deleted
Rinse and repeat until you get a nice indentation.
If you are using Python (or if you want to keep your white spaces) then instead of deleting the tabs (or spaces), you can replace them with a placeholder character you don't use in the rest of the code, say £ and replace them back in one pass when you are done. However, you'll get a skewed indentation.
I guess there's a way to do this with macros, but this was good enough for me.
I was trying to replace single to double quotes for single declaration, I've selected the block, pressed CTRL+F, a nice search&replace panel shown up.
OK, I have Replace, Replace All. OK, I have also scope: Current file, Open files, Enclosing project, Workspace.
But where is selection?
How to replace the text in selection only?
I'm using Aptana Studio 3, build: 3.4.1.201306062137
Under Window -> Preferences
Aptana Studio -> Find Bar -> "Show Eclipse search dialog on 2nd Ctrl + F"
Then it's necessary to press CTRL+F 2 times, and the "clasical" search/replace dialog is displayed.