Quick Searches

Quick Find and Quick Replace can be considered as all-purpose, generic searches. Where incremental search is the most focused search and Find In Files is the most comprehensive search, the following "Quick" search-and-replace features are in the middle of the road.

Quick Find

Quick Find is your standard Ctrl+F search, as represented in most of today’s software applications.

Tip 3.5: You can use Ctrl+F to use Quick Find in the current document

Pressing Ctrl+F brings up the UI to start a Quick Find search in the current document.

Tip 3.5: You can use Ctrl+F to use Quick Find in the current document

Quick Find prepopulates the Find What text with whatever text is selected in the editor or the word that the ...

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