Hotkeys
Hotkey | Action |
Navigational keys | |
Tab, Shift+Tab | Switch between controls |
Ctrl+Tab | Switch between Search and Replace tabs |
Alt+1 | Move focus to the results pane |
Alt+2 | Move focus to the context viewer |
Alt+S | Move focus to the "Search for" box (in English version) |
Esc | Quit the program |
Hotkeys for toggling search modes (in the English version) | |
Alt+C | Match case |
Alt+H | Whole word search |
Alt+R | Regular expressions |
Hotkeys in the results pane | |
Up, Down, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End | Move the selection |
Enter | Open the file in an external program |
Alt+Enter, Alt+Double click | Open the Properties window |
Space | Check/uncheck box |
Insert | Check/uncheck box and move to the next occurrence |
Ctrl+C | Copy the results to clipboard |
Ctrl+Shift+C | Copy the results to clipboard (the matching text only) |
Hotkeys in the context viewer | |
Up, Down, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, Left, Right | Navigate in the file |
Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End | Go to the beginning or the end of the file |
Ctrl+Page Up, Ctrl+Page Down | Go to the first or the last visible line |
Ctrl+A | Select all |
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Insert | Copy selected text to clipboard |
Sorting the results | |
Ctrl+F2 | Sort by path (first by the directory, then by the file name) |
Ctrl+F3 | Sort by filename (regardless of the directory) |
Ctrl+F4 | Sort by extension |
Ctrl+F5 | Sort by modification date (recently changed files first) |
Ctrl+F6 | Sort by file size (the largest files first) |
In non-English versions, press Alt + underlined character instead of the proposed shortcuts.
This is a page from Aba Search and Replace help file.
- Welcome to Aba
- Getting started
- How-to guides
- Selecting the files to search in
- Inserting some text at the beginning of each file
- Replacing multiple lines of text
- Searching in Unicode files
- Replacing in binary files
- Performing operations with the found files
- Undoing a replacement
- Saving search parameters for further use
- Removing private data
- Adding or removing Aba from Explorer context menu
- Integrating Aba with Total Commander
- Integrating Aba with Free Commander
- Integrating Aba with Directory Opus
- Regular Expressions
- User interface
- Command line
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Version history
- Credits