In Eclipse I can highlight text in the editor such as "foobar" and then hit Ctrl+K, and Eclipse will automatically do a "find next" operation as if I had originally searched for "foobar". I don't have to do a separate "search" operation for the selected text. How do I do this in IntelliJ?
If I switch IntelliJ to Eclipse key mappings, indeed I can press Ctrl+K to invoke the "find next" operation. Unfortunately it ignores the selected text and instead searching again for the last text I searched for.
In other words, with Eclipse mappings in IntelliJ I still have to perform the following steps to do a Ctrl+K search for "foobar":
Select the text "foobar" in the editor.
Hit Ctrl+F for search; IntelliJ will pick up the selected text "foobar".
Hit <Enter> to search once for "foobar".
Hit <Esc> to exit search mode.
Finally hit Ctrl+K to search for the next occurrence of "foobar".
In Eclipse I only have to do this:
Select the text "foobar" in the editor.
Hit Ctrl+K to search for the next occurrence of "foobar" (regardless of what I searched for previously).
How can I get the same "search for next occurrence of selected text" functionality IntelliJ IDEA?
Try the Quick Find plugin, which appears to emulate the Eclipse functionality more closely than the "Next Occurrence of the Word at Caret" action. Caveat: I have not tried it myself.
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I can click on the "External Libraries" and start typing, then intellij would start searching for what I was typing and highlight them. For example, this is what happens when I search for "google":
This is great, except that if I want to see the next highlighted item, I have to scroll my mouse wheel down and try to find them. This is slow especially when the list is long. So my question is:
Is there a shortcut to jump to the next highlighted item directly?
Yes, just use ↓ (Key Down) shortcut.
I press ⌘F and enter a search term and I see its first occurrence selected in the editor. I would like to return focus to the editor to start editing the occurrence there. Can I do that with a keyboard shortcut, without closing the search like when using esc?
Most programs copy selected text (say selectedText1), open textbox and paste buffer in search when Ctrl-C, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-V hotkeys are pressed. IntelliJ decided change this behavior to "more efficient". Ctrl-C, Ctrl-F copy-paste highlighted text in a search box.
I end up pressing Ctrl-C, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-V -> selectedText1selectedText1 0 results -> Backspace several times -> selectedText -> too many results, because selectedTextProcessor and selectedText2 are included.
This breaks workflow.
AutoHotKey script to replace ^F with ^F, ^A, Backspace is my current workaround.
Is there a way to tell intelliJ that I want conventional ^c,^f,^v behavior? For instance enable "if ^F,^V are pressed, first ^V is omitted.
No there's no way to do that. The whole point is this way is more efficient.
Your claim about "most programs" and "conventional behaviour" is spurious. Most that I use will default to searching the text on the clipboard, if there isn't already text selected in the current window.
Whenever I double click on words in IntelliJ, the editor highlights the word like I am expecting it to, and it also acts as if I am pressing the insert button to do Overtyping. If the word is selected and I move down via keypad, it starts to highlight everything from the end of the word and it is very infuriating. How can I disable this? I looked through the settings and I am not seeing anything that is related to double clicking and highlighted words.
I found a solution, there was a plugin that was installed along with the installation that is IdeaVim. After uninstalling that and I do not have the issue anymore
When searching for a String in Intellij's console, you have to type the word you are looking for in a special input. But as soon as you begin typing, intellij is beginning to parse the whole console log which can be huge (it can freeze the whole IDE), and it starts to look for the first letter typed.
So if you want to search for "WARN", it begins to look for "W" for no reason. Is there a way to have a manual "start search" in intellij console and to disable the "auto-search" on typing in search box? That way I would just type the whole word and then search for it in the log, as the word is more restrictive the search would not freeze intellij.
I found how to bypass auto-search, use a text editor (notepad++, scite...) then type in it what you want to look for. Copy it to the clipboard. Paste then in the search box instead of all characters in it (use ctrl+a to select all, then paste).
Intellij will take the paste event as an unique event (not a succession of many keyboard events).