jEdit’s BEST shortcuts

I’m not sure how many people out there are scanning log files and parameter files for certain words, but in my “debugging life”, Im searching all day long. And, because of that, I LOVE the following 2 default jEdit shortcuts:

[CTRL]-[,] – Control-Comma

This is the “find as you type” shortcut. It will open a “text box” at the top of your screen where you can type in the word or phrase that you are looking for, and it will start to search as you type. If you’ve typed your word, and only found the first occurrence, just press [ENTER] to be take to the next one.

[CTRL]-[.] – Control-Period

This is the “Hyper search” shortcut. You use this to find all occurrences of your search word/phrase. It’s similar to pressing [CTRL]-[F] and searching that way. But, if you’ve docked your hypersearch results window in jEdit, (which I’ve done at the bottom of the editor), then you’ll get a nice docked window of results. Clicking on these results takes you straight to the location of the result.

The image above shows you my results and how I’ve docked them at the bottom…