Find​In​Files-addon

Sublime Text - Find in Files hacks

The plugin with the following features:

1. Make all lines in a find-in-files result buffer double-clickable.

2. Bind <enter> to do the same thing, namely go to that line. (But also set the column, well … just the complete selection.)

3. Bind , and . to go to the previous or next match staying in the result buffer. Just move the cursor (“navigate”) around. Wraps at the edges but stays in the same search. [1]

   But you can also bind fif_addon_prev_match and fif_addon_next_match on your own.

4. Bind ctrl+enter to open a preview, side-by-side. The preview will update when you navigate around. Both, enter and ctrl+enter will close the preview. As there is no side-by-side to a results panel, this will only work for result buffers. Also, if you already use the newish “find_in_files_side_by_side” setting, there is no real difference as you already opted-in to always use a side-by-side view. (Hint: Turn find_in_files_side_by_side off and use the preview feature here.)

5. Bind ctrl+r[2] to refresh the view, t.i. redo the last search. Hm, :thinking:, maybe we can change that and redo the search the cursor is currently in. But for now it is the last search in the buffer.

6. Bind alt+c[3] to toggle case sensitivity, alt-w to toggle the whole word flag and redo the search immediately.

7. Bind alt+r to toggle regex mode. The pattern will be escaped/unescaped and the panel will open to edit the pattern further.

8. Bind + and - to change the number of context lines. For ease of use, hit - repeatedly as a toggle between no context and your default, or if your default is no context between that and some context.

9. If you reuse the result buffer (and it is a tab, not the panel thing at the bottom of the window), the tab moves with you so that closing the tab (aka ctrl+w) brings you to the view where you initiated the search.

10. Add the search summary (e.g. “2 matches across 2 files”) to the search header line (“Searching 9 files for …”)

11. Re-bind ctrl+shift+f to immediately do the search if you have exactly one selection. Exclude untitled buffers in that case. (You can turn this off by setting "leave_my_keys_alone.FindInFiles-addon": true in the user preferences.) Sets “whole_word” if you've selected a whole word, unsets it if that's not the case. Also normalizes case_sensitive and regex to false.

[1] You know, the result buffer can be re-used and then holds the results of multiple searches.

[2] On Linux and Windows, F5 can be used as well.

[3] On Mac, the standard super+alt modifier is used.

I personally like it when escape closes the results view. You can add that to your own key bindings. E.g.

{
        "keys": ["escape"],
        "command": "close",
        "context": [
            { "key": "selector", "operand": "text.find-in-files" },
            // negate all default escape contexts, even if they're not likely to ever match
            { "key": "auto_complete_visible", "operator": "not_equal" },
            { "key": "has_prev_field", "operator": "not_equal" },
            { "key": "has_next_field", "operator": "not_equal" },
            { "key": "num_selections", "operator": "equal", "operand": 1 },
            { "key": "overlay_visible", "operator": "not_equal" },
            { "key": "panel_visible", "operator": "not_equal" },
            { "key": "popup_visible", "operator": "not_equal" },
        ]
    }