Does a Find in project feature exist in Eclipse IDE

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Search and Replace   Ctrl   F  Open find and replace dialog  Ctrl   F   Ctrl   Shift   K  Find previous   find next occurrence of search term  close find window first    Ctrl   H  Search Workspace  Java Search  Task Search  and File Search    Ctrl   J   Ctrl Shift  J Incremental search forward   backwards   Type search term after pressing Ctrl J  there is now search window Ctrl shift O   Open a resource search dialog to find any class

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

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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

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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    Whereas when you select directory on Package Explorer and then press Ctrl   H  or choose Search - gt  File   from main menu   you get the desired window - File Search

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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

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Open  Search Dialog Search- gt  Search    or use Shortcut Ctrl   H    Containing text  Type the expression for which you wish to do the text search  Choose if you want Case sensitive  Regular expression or Whole word File name patterns  In this field  enter all the file name patterns for the files to find or search through for the specified expression  Scope  Choose the scope of your search  You can either search the whole workspace  pre-defined working sets  previously selected resources or projects enclosing the selected resources  Press Search

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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     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

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Ctrl   Alt   G can be used to find selected text across a workspace in eclipse    OSX    Option     Command   G

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

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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    Put your cursor on what you want to lookup Press Ctrl   Shift   g

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