How to select all instances of selected region in Sublime Text

Question

Is there a shortcut key or single-step menu option to find and select all instances of a highlighted selection in Sublime Text

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Note  You should not edit the default settings  because they get reset on updates upgrades  For customization  you should override any setting by using the user bindings   On Mac    Sublime Text 2   Preferences   Key Bindings-Default Sublime Text 3   Preferences   Key Bindings   This opens a document that you can edit the keybindings for Sublime   If you search  ctrl super g  you find this      keys     ctrl super g     command    find all under

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Even though there are multiple answers  there is an issue using this approach  It selects all the text that matches  not only the whole words like variables   As per  Sublime Text  Select all instances of a variable and edit variable name  and the answer in  Sublime Text  Select all instances of a variable and edit variable name   we have to start with a empty selection  That is  start using the shortcut Alt F3 which would help selecting only the whole words

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On Mac     CTRL g  However  you can reset any key any way you d like using  Customize your Sublime Text 2 configuration for awesome coding   for Mac     On Windows Linux   Alt F3  If anyone has how-tos or articles on this  I d be more than happy to update

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On Windows Linux press Alt F3

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On Windows Linux press Alt F3    This worked for me on Ubuntu  I changed it in my  Key-Bindings User  to something that I liked better though

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On Mac OS you can use  CMD   CTRL   G

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In the other posts  you have the shortcut keys  but if you want the menu option in every system  just go to Find   Quick Find All  as shown in the image attached   Also  check the other answers for key binding to do it faster than menu clicking

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