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Hello,
Does someone knows how to fix an annoying behaviour in the code editor of Visual Studio.?
I have a .cs file with 10 000 lines of code.
I am positioned within the file to see the lines from 920 to 950
I am trying to find a specific text (let's say "contract")
While i am typing the "contract" word, Visual Studio automatically jumps to the closest occurence of the "contract" word, even i did not clicked on the Find Next button.
If the .cs file is very large (and it is) it's very hard to know if the found occurrence is in the scope you are interested or not.
Would be better to remove this behaviour and make Visual Studio act lke a normal editor:
It's the only text editor from Microsoft Stack that has this issue, Visual Studio Code and Sql Server Management Studio acts normal.
Thanks,
Liviu
.cs file with 10 000 lines of code in dotnet-visual-basic?
Seems like this would not happen if you split your code up in a logical fashion but if that is not an option report this behavior to Microsoft using the feedback button in Visual Studio.
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Hi Liviu, could you tell us which version of VS you are using? Can you create a new project to check again?
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@Peter Fleischer (former MVP) , yes .cs files with more than 10k of rows in .NET Framework projects.
@Karen Payne MVP , project cannot be split because would take way to much time, it's a project developed during 10 years by 2-3 people and i am currently maintaing it.
@Anna Xiu-MSFT I am currently using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit) - Current
Version 17.6.2 but the version doesnt matter as i noticed this behaviour since some time ago, on previous versions too.
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I am fully with the OP here. This behavior is not helpful at all. I have been using Resharper for many years and thus never realized how bad VS behaves out of the box.
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I totally agree with the OP as well. My use case is I'm copying a small bit of code -- a method, etc., and I want to replace all instances of the text "abc" with "def" in the new copy. I can of course do that manually, but just to do an idiot check I use Ctrl+F and look for "abc", but unfortunately, it jumps right to the other method that I copied from. That method might be very far away in the code which is completely unhelpful. I agree with the sentiments expressed above that files should be short, etc. but when you join a team that has an established code base which consists of hundreds of long files, you can't just say "hey guys, let's drop what we're doing and refactor all these long files because convention says they should be short". In the real world, the OPs issue is valid. This is just one use case.
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I tried to add the following comment to Rory's: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/When-using-Ctrl--F-in-Visual-Studio-cod/10061633?entry=suggestion&space=8
... but the page wouldn't let me. ^_^
Because Ctrl + Shift + F is not equivalent. It brings up a dialog, then opens a window, rather than going to the line of code I want. I use it to search the entire solution, so I’d have to change the options when I’m just looking in the current file. Why can’t Ctrl + F not start moving the cursor until Enter is pressed (as an option)? If I’ve collapsed all the functions to definitions, the eager searching expanding random functions I don’t care about as I type more letters in the Find dialog. Irritating.