Shane Bell

Those of you who use Firefox will be familar with it's fantastic incremental find feature. Just hit / and start typing your search term and Firefox will search for it as you type.

It's one of those features that after a while you just can't live without. On the rare occasions that I'm forced to use IE, I'm always disappointed when I have to revert to the old Ctrl-f find.

So you can imagine my joy when I discovered that Eclipse has this same feature. It's been there all along, I just never knew.

While you're editing a file, just hit Ctrl-j to enter the incremental find mode (you should see "Incremental Find" in the status bar if all is well). Then just type the text you're looking for and Eclipse will jump to the first instance of that text. Ctrl-k will find the next match, and Esc will get you out of incremental find mode.

Add that one to your bag of tricks and you'll save yourself 20 minutes a day :)