You can’t really change the capture groups for the replace part though, can you? Now, you have a bunch of options for searching, like matching the case, using regular expressions, and so on.
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That’s Cmd-Shift-F and Cmd-Shift-R for you (or, with Ctrl instead of Cmd if you don’t use a Mac, or use the old school Mac OS keymap like yours truly). You hopefully also know you can search and replace in any folder of the project, invoking the Find in Path or Replace in path dialogs.
You surely already know you can search and replace inside of a given file. And besides, what if we need more complex manipulation? Say hi to our old friends, regular expressions Nor one that’s limited to a certain selection, or number of selections, to find into. In the first place, this can only be done on a single file there’s no Select next occurrence that works across files. Unfortunately, this has a couple of shortcomings. Or even, change it of any arbitrary body of text - just create as many cursors as you need and select what you want, then toggle its case! Lastly, Ctrl-Cmd-G ( Ctrl-Shift-Alt-J for non-Mac users) will select all occurrences.Īs a result, we have an easy way to change the case of one or more occurrences of some text quickly. You can also do Ctrl-Shift-G (or Alt-Shift-J) to undo the last selection if you notice you’ve gotten too far. A simple Ctrl-G ( Alt-J on Win/Linux) will select the next occurrence of the token your cursor is on (or of the current selection). To get multiple cursors, the easiest but least convenient way is to hold Alt-Shift and click where you want a new cursor.īut in here we’re all about the keyboard shortcuts, and so I’m happy to say, the IDE has got you covered there as well. Since IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 (and Android Studio versions based upon that), you can have multiple cursors in your IDE, similarly to what you can do in Sublime Text. In that case, the refactoring tools that the IDE puts at our disposals are more than enough for quickly getting it done: Rename refactorings, CamelHumps, and such are a godsend.īut what happens when we’re doing a mass refactoring, and we want to change a lot of identifiers at the same time? What if what we want to do is a text-based case change rather than a refactor-based one? Or maybe you’re editing a JSON or some other file type for which no refactoring is available. Most of the time, it’s about simply renaming a single variable or method.
Cover image: “Matterhorn Sonnenuntergang” by Edoardo Brotto - on flickrĬhanging casing to some token is one of those things that, taken in small doses, we all endure daily without breaking much of a sweat.
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