Merlin’s Delphi Forge

If you don’t want to bother with the Find dialog then there sure is hope The Delphi/Kylix IDE has a shortcut - Ctrl + E. After pressing this keystroke notice that the status bar changes to “Searching for:”. Now all you have to do is type the text you are looking for. The text will appear in the status bar and the IDE will select the next occurrence as you type. To exit “search mode” just press Esc.

This is very helpful is you just want to find some text quickly. This way does not support regular expressions, though.

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