Is there a good "find all" function in Eclipse?

Question

I have been using Eclipse for R and C++. So far I have not been able to find a reliable "find all" function. It seems to be an easy concept, I search for a string such as "rows" and the function should return all occurences of it within the that I currently have open. (Even if it's in all files in my owrkspace, that's fine too.)

However, I have either not understood how to use the "search" functions correctly or they are very buggy.

So my question is how do I search for all occurences of a string in a file in Eclpise?

Adobe Dreamweaver, for example, has been able to do this for years.(Although it's completely unrelated to R and C++)

I would like to view a list of all occurences and then be able to click on a specific occurence to go to it.

Tusche

Answer 1

After opening Eclipse, (corresponding to a workspace), Press "CTRL + H" anywhere and you can search anything

• like java files that contain specific "keywords".
• all occurences within a java file.
• plugins names etc

Bawdry

Figured it out: use Ramandeep Singh's suggestion, BUT select "Regular expression" and use "File Search". Although it searches everything in the workspace, that's still fine. :-) – Tusche

This is great. But it would be nice to limit the search to the current file without having to type out the filename. – Melena

...one way is to press CTRL + A (select all) before CTRL + H and selecting Scope "Selected resource". But really "Current file" should be a Scope option. – Melena

Answer 2

Just type "rows" or whatever the search term is somewhere in text, select it (so that it becomes highlighted) then press "Alt+Ctrl+g". This will perform a global search for that term, pretty handy.

Kaiser