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 can't figure out how to find and replace all occurrences of a word in different files using Visual Studio Code version 1.0.
I get the impression this should be possible since doing Ctrl + Shift + F allows me to simply search a folder, but i am clueless to how to proceed from here.
I looked in various key combination
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/customization/keybindings
But I only found how to replace all occurrences in the open file (Ctrl + h)
All help gratefully appreciated, this is driving me crazy.
I'm using Visual Studio Code 1.8, and this feature is available. But it's a little tricky to understand at first, and (at the time of writing) the docs don't explain clearly how to use it, so here's how it works, step by step:
Invoke Replace in Files (under the Edit menu, or with shortcut Ctrl+Shift+H)
You'll see a standard Find/Replace input replacing the files pane on the left:
Enter your search string and the replace string, then press enter. It may churn for a second searching all files, then it'll show the proposed changes in all your project files -- but note, these changes haven't been made yet! Here's what it looks like:
Now you need to make the changes (and even after that, you have to save the modified files.)
You can make those changes in various ways:
Make all changes to all files at once.
Click the replace icon next to your replace string (note: you'll get a dialog to confirm this bulk action.)
Make all changes in a single file at once.
Click the replace icon next to the filename (note: the icon only shows up when you hover over the filename row)
Make a single change in a single file.
Click the replace icon next to the individual change: (note: the icon only shows up when you hover over the change row)
Finally, don't forget to save!
All those files are now modified in the editor and not yet saved to disk (unless Auto Save is on).
Use File -> Save All (or Ctrl+Alt+S)
Update: I'm not sure when this was added, but if you click the "Replace all" button and see this dialog, clicking "Replace" will change and save all files in one click:
Since version 1.3 of vscode this is possible
Navigate to the search, click icon to the left or:
(mac) cmd + shift + h
(PC) ctrl + shift + h
expand replace
enter search term and replace term
confirm!
To replace a string in a single file (currently opened): CTRL + H
For replacing at workspace level use: CTRL + SHIFT + H
Update for 2020
If you are using the search feature to search across files (Ctrl + Shift + F) it can be easy to miss how to convert your search to a search and replace within the UI.
Here's a typical search result:
To convert this to a search and replace you need to click the arrow icon to the left of the search input field. This will open the replace options as seen below. Note the arrow icon is now pointed down.
The keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + H will also work as well to access the search and replace.
Link to VSCode docs on search and replace: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_search-and-replace
This is the best way.
First put your cursor on the member and click F2.
Then type the new name and hit the Enter key. This will rename all of the occurrences in every file in your project.
This is ideal for when you want to rename across multiple files. For example, you may want to rename a publicly accessible function on an Angular service and have everywhere that uses it get updated.
For more great tools I highly recommend:
https://johnpapa.net/refactoring-with-visual-studio-code/
On the Visual Studio Code Key Bindings page, the section Keyboard Shortcuts Reference has links to a PDF for each major OS. Once open, search for "replace in files" or any other shortcut you might need.
Another way is to use the Command Palette (ctrl/cmd+shift+P) where you can type "replace" to list all related commands, including the one you want:
Replace in Files ctrl/cmd+shift+H
Visual Studio Code: Version: 1.53.2
If you are looking for the answer in 2021 (like I was), the answer is here on the Microsoft website but honestly hard to follow.
Go to Edit > Replace in Files
From there it is similar to the search funtionality for a single file.
I changed the name of a class I was using across files and this worked perfectly.
Note: If you cannot find the Replace in Files option, first click on the Search icon (magnifying glass) and then it will appear.
There are 2 methods technically same
First put your cursor on the word and press F2.
Replace your word and press Enter.
First put your cursor on the word and left click it.
Click "Rename Symbol" option.
Replace your word and press Enter.
In the VSC version 1.57
you can use the F2 key to replace on the folder(Rename Symbol)
Only thing is that even though all the places inside folder are replaced the file is not saved and the save has to be done afterwards
Also, instead of presing enter and replace all directly, you can press Shift + Enter to preview the places that are going to be renamed.
Step by step with images
Nowadays in VS Code this can be done quickly.
1) Click on the Search Button (in the side bar):
2) Enter in the inputs what do you want to find, and with what do you want to replace it:
(Here I am replacing in my project all the occurrences of table-cell with t-cell)
3) Finally, click on this small button (Replace All):
Then a pop-up will appear to confirm if you want to replace all occurrences. Click on Replace.
And you're done!
For search and replace all use this command:
command + option + F
I have a document in vim which contains encoding-related chars I want to get rid of (e.g. replace with "").
I have a general problem in describing their origin. There are examples of how they are displayed in different editors (my desired tool to get rid of them is vim).
in vim:
Oś<9c>więcim (<9c> is a part I would like to get rid of)
in Geany:
(but copy-paste copies without this 'square' sign)
in LibreOffice Calc:
Please note there are other Polish-langauage-specific signs in my text whcih are displayed correct.
Q: how to regex it out in vim?
You can enter the <9c> via :help i_CTRL-V_digit by pressing Ctrl + V (on Windows, often Ctrl + Q instead), followed by X and the hexadecimal number:
:%s/<C-V>x9c//g
Alternatively, the special \%x9c regular expression atom matches that value:
:%s/\%x9c//g
Alternatively, you could also just yank the character when the cursor is on it via yl, and then paste in the :s command-line via <C-R>".
I have tried the following two expressions in order to search for an assignment within my code. For some reason, neither works and I do not understand why. I am using the Find and Replace dialogue within Visual Studio 2010.
// I thought that :b was the ms code for whitespace
m_Events.*[=][:b]
// I thought that [=][^=] will match an = followed by anything except another =.
m_Events.*[=][^=]
Both of the above expressions match lines with == but I only want to find things with a single = within.
Thanks in advance!
You need to have [not "="] on both sides of the "=":
m_Events.*[^=]=[^=]
I'm trying to find an easy way to find the number of comment-lines in an IDL file and I don't want to install another extension just for this (also: I don't have Code Analysis, so no metrics). It occurred to me that Visual Studio supports regex searches in the Find In Files search window. So could I count the number of comment-lines in my IDL file using a straightforward regex search?
Unfortunately I am not fluent in regex at all, so the next question is: what would the regex pattern have to be? And if this is any easier: a line with code and a comment appended should count as code and not as comment. Please also beer in mind that Visual Studio has its own regex standard.
Here are some typical examples of comments in the IDL file:
// comment
//++ comment
UserMode, // comment
/*++
comment
--*/
I think the comments that contain ++ and/or -- are some auto-generated comments.
Its Simple.
Find : /\*.*\*/
Repace : anything
Then give replace All.
You will find the count , in a message box 9 matches replaced. You now got the count.
Undo the entire operation, by ctrl + Z
Edit : Response for comment that it is not working.