Use the Find/Replace dialog
To open the Find / Replace dialog:
- Optionally, select some text in a text (or Java) editor
- Press Ctrl+F or
- From the menu bar, select Edit > Find / Replace
To use the Find / Replace dialog:
- In the Find field, enter the text you want to replace
- Optionally, in the Replace With field, enter the next text
- Use the radio buttons in the Direction group to select the direction of finding occurrences (relative to the current caret position)
- In the Scope radio button group:
- Select the Selected Lines button if you want to limit find / replace to the lines you selected when opening the dialog
- Select the All button otherwise
- In the Options group:
- Select the Case Sensitive checkbox if you want finding to be case sensitive.
- Select the Whole Word checkbox if you want to find / replace only those occurrences in which the text you entered in the Find field is a whole word
- Select the Wrap Search checkbox if you want the dialog to continue from the top of the file once the bottom is reached (if you find / replace in Selected Lines only, then this option applies to those lines only)
- Select the Incremental checkbox if you want to perform incremental find (e.g. the dialog will find matching occurrences while you are typing in the Find field)
- Press:
- Find if you want to find the next matching occurrence
- Replace, if you want to replace the currently selected occurrence with the new text
- Replace / Find, if you want to replace the currently selected occurrence with the new text and find the next matching occurrence
- Replace All, if you want to replace all matching occurrences with the new text
- Press Close.
Using the Java editor
Finding and replacing