Search history
Aba saves the last 20 search parameters, including a pattern, a replacement, and search modes. To repeat one of the previous searches, press the button with a downward arrow (near Search for and Replace with fields) and select an item from the left menu.
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By default, Aba immediately starts searching as you are selecting items from the menu. If the preview is undesired, you can turn it off in the Options dialog.
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You can clear the entire search history or remove individual items by right-clicking them and selecting Delete from the shortcut menu. Unfortunately, you cannot open this menu by pressing Shift+F10 or the shortcut menu key on your keyboard. It's a limitation of Microsoft Windows. You can press Backspace instead.
Hotkey | Action |
Alt+Down | Open the search history menu (when you are in Search for or Replace with fields) |
Backspace | Open the shortcut menu for removing search history items |
1..9, 0 | Open the first, the second, etc. element in search history |
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