2.3 Incremental Search

For an efficient search in open files, CodeBlocks provides the so-called Incremental Search. This search method is initiated for an open file via the menu ’Search’ /’Incremental Search’ or by the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-I. The focus is then automatically set to the search mask of the corresponding toolbar. As soon as you begin entering the search term, the background of the search mask will be adjusted in accordance with the occurrence of the term. If a hit is found in the active editor, the respective position in the text is marked in colour. By default the current hit will be highlighted in green. This setting can be changed via ’Settings’ /’ Editor’ /’ Incremental Search’ (see ??). Pressing the Return key induces the search to proceed to the next occurrence of the search string within the file. With Shift-Return the previous occurrence can be selected. This functionality is not supported by Scintilla if the incremental search uses regular expressions.

If the search string cannot be found within the active file, this fact is highlighted by the background of the search mask being displayed in red.

The icons in the Incremental Search toolbar have the following meanings: