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#505 Search within your Find Results

ByScott Cate June 1, 2010November 20, 2012

Ever user [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[F] and find too many results? Narrow your search scope, OR … search within the results. Didn’t know you could do that did you? This video shows you how.

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#53 How to enable Emacs and Brief editor emulations?
ByScott Cate February 19, 2009November 20, 2012

In VS 2005, we introduced Emacs and Brief emulations into the editor. Go to Tools – Options – Environment – Keyboard, and then drop down the Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme: Choose either Brief or Emacs.

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#019 Convert White Space; Spaces to Tabs; Tabs to Spaces.
ByScott Cate December 28, 2012December 28, 2012

Have you ever opened someone else’s source code (maybe an open source, code sample, or even other team mate) and the code just isn’t aligned? This can happen because of spaces and tabs. By default, Visual Studio shows a tab as four spaces. So without white space visible (Tricks #003) four spaces, looks the same…

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#021 Transpose Characters, words, and lines in the editor
ByScott Cate December 28, 2012December 28, 2012

Moving text around is something we all need to do frequently. This trick shows you how to transpose characters (which is great for fixing typos), words, and lines with their neighbors. Characters flip with their neighbor to fix a type or spelling error. Words switch left and right to quickly move a word down the…

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#73 Hide the Quick Find / Quick Replace window after the first search hit
ByScott Cate May 22, 2010November 20, 2012

Let’s say you are searching for some text and you already know about F3 and Shift+F3, so you want the [CTRL]+[F] Quick Find or the [CTRL]+[H] Quick Replace window to disappear after the first search. Go to Tools | Options | Environment | Find and Replace page, and check the Hide Find and Replace window…

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#48 Undo and Redo magic (with multiple levels) in Visual Studio
ByScott Cate February 10, 2009November 20, 2012

Yeah, ya, we all know [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], Undo, Undo, Undo. Oops too far.. Redo, Redo, Redo. There is a better way to multiple undo / redo. This video shows you how. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.

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#71 Bookmark all of your Quick Find results
ByScott Cate April 25, 2010November 20, 2012

Sometimes when you’re looking for something in code, it would be nice for the results to persist. Instead of routing the results to the standard find box, this tip / trick shows you how to add a bookmark to all of the result findings. Then you’re free to use the keyboard shortcuts around bookmarking to…

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