Submitted by prashant_agr on Sun, 2007-05-06 14:07.
In the editor window, simply press Ctrl + E and start typing... and the next occurrence of your text is found, without filling out any dialog!
Backspace removes the last character from the search string and moves to the previous match. F3 repeats the search. Just play with it for a while, and discover what a great time saver this trick can be:
d will find the next character d, say in the word Windows
e finds de such as in Sender
l brings you to del as in Delphi
F3 finds the next del as in Deletefile
Backspace brings you back to the de in Sender
Re: How to find text quickly with incremental searching in Delph
In the editor window, simply press Ctrl + E and start typing... and the next occurrence of your text is found, without filling out any dialog!
Backspace removes the last character from the search string and moves to the previous match. F3 repeats the search. Just play with it for a while, and discover what a great time saver this trick can be:
d will find the next character d, say in the word Windows
e finds de such as in Sender
l brings you to del as in Delphi
F3 finds the next del as in Deletefile
Backspace brings you back to the de in Sender