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Asked: 2026-06-07T11:24:35+00:00

First, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE – this is not a religious discussion about editors. I

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First, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE – this is not a religious discussion about editors. I just want a How To sort of answer.

That said, in editors where the data is seen as a matrix (sometimes called Eastern Orthodox Editors, examples: SlickEdit, Xedit, E/PM and the switch+alt+A block mode in eclipse) rather than a long string broken into rows (Western Orthodox Editors) it is possible to have a function, usually called “ALL” that takes a search argument and shows only ALL the lines containing that search. So if you had a file like:

11 22 33 44 55
22 33 44 55 66
33 44 55 66 77
77 88 99 00 11

and issued an ALL for “11”, you’d see only the lines with 11 in them:

11 22 33 44 55
77 88 99 00 11

The other lines would be hidden and, most importantly, any edits applied would only act on the visible lines, not on the hidden one(s).

So, it there a tool, add-on, built-in, whatever, that will do this for Eclipse? And for that matter MS/VS and NetBeans?

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know of such an editor function, but you can do a file search specifying the string and the search view will give you a list of the lines containing the string. It’s just that the list is displayed as a tree and not a solid block of text.

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