Hotkeys
| Hotkey | Action |
| Navigational keys | |
| Tab, Shift+Tab | Switch between controls |
| Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Switch between the tabs (Search, Replace, etc.) |
| Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, etc. | Switch to the first, second, etc. tab |
| 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 |
| Left, Right | Move to the previous/next file |
| 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
- Replacement syntax
- User interface
- Command line
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Version history
- Credits