How do I go to “next occurrence” in Eclipse

Question

In Eclipse you can turn on \"Mark Occurrences\", and then it will highlight every occurrence of a given variable in the current scope. That\'s great, but I\'d really like to mo

Answer 1

You didn't mention how exactly ctrl+k didn't work for you, but it's what I use in similar circumstances. I put the cursor into or select the word that I'm looking for in the editor and then press ctrl+k to move me to the next occurrence. Since the next occurrence gets selected, I can use the same combination to move forward or press ctrl+shift+k (Find Previous) to move back. (Sorry if that sounds patronizing, but ctrl+k sounds exactly like what you're looking for and I don't know the details of the difficulty you had with it.)

I agree about the other combinations. If I have to take my hand off the keyboard, I may as well use the scrollbar.

Best of luck.

Answer 2

There are a number of SO posts around this. The one that seems to have the best answer is: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12767327/2836515

Summary: Change the "Next / Previous Annotation" option (Up / Down arrow in the toolbar) to include occurrences and then use CTRL+, or CTRL+. to find next occurrence.

Answer 3

Use CTRL+K to go to next occurrence and CTRL+SHIFT+K to go to previous occurrence.

Answer 4

You can do this to maybe reduce some keystrokes/mouse clicks in selecting the initial word:

1. Put the cursor on the word you're looking for
2. Hit alt + shift + up
3. Hit ctrl + k

This highlights the current word and then does a find next. It doesn't seem to be case-sensitive, though, but that's a small price to pay.

There are definitely some places it doesn't work, though. Like class and implements in the following (it highlights the whole class):

public class MyClass implements MyInterface {}

Answer 5

There is a command "Occurrences in File" that is not bound to any key by default. You can run it by pressing Ctrl+3 and then typing occurr. It will put all the current variable in the current file in the Search results. Now Ctrl+. and Ctrl+, will navigate through those occurrences, instead of through the warnings/errors list.

In order to go back you would want to clean search results. It seems this command does not have a key bound either. It is not even shown as a command in the Ctrl+3 list. But you may also just do another search and it will overwrite the previous one results.