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Search Everywhere

Press Shift twice to open Search Everywhere. All the commands above open the same popup on a different tab: All, Classes, Files, Symbols, Actions and Text. Press ⇥ / Tab to move to the next tab.
  • All shows the best matches of every kind in sections, plus Endpoints: HTTP routes of web frameworks, found by request path (/api/users, optionally prefixed with a method such as POST) or by controller and method name. With an empty query it lists recent files and recent actions.
  • Matching is fuzzy: usrctl finds UserController. For files you can add a line and column, as in Main.kt:42 or Main.kt:42:5, and you can paste an absolute path or a file:// URL.
  • Classes, Files and Symbols search the project by default. Check Include non-project items (or press the tab’s shortcut again) to include libraries and other files outside the project. When nothing matches in the project, the search widens by itself.
  • The scope menu narrows results to All Places, Project Files, Project Production Files or Project Test Files.
  • Actions finds every command by name, including settings pages and toggles; Include disabled actions also lists commands that don’t apply right now. Running an action from here is the same as using its menu item or shortcut.
  • ↵ / Enter opens the selected item; ⇧↵ / Shift+Enter opens it in a split to the side. Right-click a result to copy its path or name, or to search in its directory.
Classes and symbols come from the IDE’s own index (available as soon as a file is indexed) merged with the language servers’ workspace symbols.

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Go to line and recent places

  • Recent Files lists recently opened files and the tool windows; type to filter.
  • Recent Locations shows the places you visited or edited with a few lines of code around each. Press the shortcut again (or check Show changed only) to see only edited places.
  • Switcher works like an application switcher: hold ⌃ / Ctrl, press ⇥ / Tab to move through open files and tool windows, and release to switch.
  • Select In… reveals the current file in the Project view or another tool window.

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Find and replace in a file

The find bar at the top of the editor has match case, whole words and regex options. Matches are highlighted as you type. Add Selection for Next Occurrence (⌃G / Alt+J) and Select All Occurrences (⌃⌘G / Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J) turn matches into carets for multi-caret editing.

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Find and replace in files

The Find in Files popup searches as you type and previews the selected match below the list.
  • Match Case (⌥C / Alt+C), Words (⌥W / Alt+W) and Regex (⌥X / Alt+X) control matching. When the text looks like a regular expression, the popup offers Search with Regex.
  • File mask (⌥K / Alt+K) limits the search to file names such as *.ts, *.tsx.
  • The search context menu limits matches to In Comments, In String Literals, or everything Except Comments and String Literals (and the other combinations).
  • The scope is In Project, Module, Directory or Scope. Scope offers Project Files, Project Production Files, Project Test Files, Open Files, Recently Viewed Files and your custom scopes (Edit Scopes…).
  • ⌥↓ / Alt+Down in the search field shows recent searches. Pin Window keeps the popup open while you work in the editor.
  • Open in Find Window moves the results to the Find tool window, grouped by file (optionally by directory), where you can rerun the search later.
For replacing, type the replacement in the second field. Preserve Case keeps the case pattern of each match. Replace replaces the selected match; Replace All replaces every match and asks first when they span more than one file. Excluded results are skipped. The search uses ripgrep’s engine. It skips folders that .gitignore excludes, .git and binary files, and it searches the unsaved text of open editors rather than the version on disk.

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Bookmarks

A bookmark marks a line, a file or a folder (from the Project view or an editor tab context menu: Add Bookmark). A line bookmark can have a mnemonic, a digit or a letter, shown in the gutter. Show Bookmarks opens a popup with a preview; the Bookmarks tool window organizes bookmarks into lists and lets you add descriptions. Edit › Bookmarks has Next Bookmark and Previous Bookmark too.

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Run Anything

Press Ctrl twice to open Run Anything, a command line for the project:
  • Type a shell command and press ↵ / Enter to run it in the project directory. Its output appears in the Run tool window.
  • Matching run configurations and build tool goals (for example Maven and Gradle tasks) are listed as you type; ⇥ / Tab completes.
  • With an empty line it shows your recent commands; Clear History empties the list.
Run Anything is also in Run › Run Anything…. See Run configurations for the configurations it lists.