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I'm looking for a faster way to open files in PhpED projects.

The way I do it is to pull up the Workspace pane with Ctrl+Alt+W (explorer is Ctrl+Alt+E), then Page Up/Page Down to find the file. This is not very effective; it takes to much time to locate the file, mostly since Page Up/Page Down jumps some 50-100 files/folders at a time.

I think I'm looking for something similar to Textmate's "go to file".

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Even I have faced the same issue. On the project if you type a file or folder name, phped will take you there. But this is not very helpful if you have lots of file and many duplicates in there.

What I do is "everything". Whenever I need a file, I click on everything tool in the taskbar then type the filename or type folder/filename and then double click it to open in PHPed.

http://lifehacker.com/5054669/everything-finds-windows-files-as-you-type

And yes I presume you are using windows like majority of PHPEd users.

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  • How can I make it search only the current project? – Markus Hedlund Sep 08 '10 at 10:07
  • use folder name, for example you want to search config.inc.php which is in folder called appsoft. Just type appsoft/config.inc.php and the file will appear. – shikhar Sep 08 '10 at 10:48
  • Cool app, very fast. But then I would have to write the full path, eg project/foo/bar/file.php. I'll give it a try, but an app with smarter search would be great. – Markus Hedlund Sep 08 '10 at 11:34
  • If it would save the sorting, that would help a lot. If I sort by last modified, the most likely file comes first. – Markus Hedlund Sep 08 '10 at 11:38
  • Woa! Found that the latest alpha had soo many more options. awesome! http://forum.voidtools.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=592 – Markus Hedlund Sep 08 '10 at 11:48
  • Been using this for a couple of hours now, works good. Thanks – Markus Hedlund Sep 08 '10 at 14:26
  • What you need really is the way Eclipse handles opening files with Ctrl-Shift-R and functions with Ctrl-Shift-T. That's an amazing productivity tool. I hate PDT for debugging PHP though - PHPEd is much better. I suggested these shortcuts to them before but I don't think they caught on. :( Ah, and Everything didn't work for me - it didn't see the network drive where my code is shared. – Artem Russakovskii Sep 09 '10 at 00:35
  • Really looking forward to [intype](http://intype.info). http://twitpic.com/2x86ib/full – Markus Hedlund Oct 13 '10 at 16:14
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In v9 I can open file from a dropdown Ctrl+Shift+N - I just type for example abc and will display all files matching abc pattern. It certainly supports regular file patterns too. And btw, I don't use it so frequently, used to use Workset feature -- each new work/fix/feature I start with opening new Workset. Don't mess with Workspace. Each workspace may have multiple worksets -- a list of open files, with their breakpoints, with appropriate active project, and so forth. It fully supports current context, so I don't have any problems switching between worsets when I need to return back to some previous things I did some weeks ago. Good job is done at NuSphere. Damn fast IDE.

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  • Yes, this new feature is really cool. But I am also facing some problems with it - suddenly it searches only files in the current folder (no subfolders) or sth like that.. If it works, it is fine, but obviously there are still some bugs.. – Asped Jun 06 '13 at 10:51