IntelliJ IDEA global search
IntelliJ is project based so you can only search within the open project using Ctrl + Shift + F(Windows) or Cmd + Shift + F(Mac). When I need to search across a set of projects I use Agent Ransack
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Find the 2nd largest element in an array with minimum number of comparisons
The optimal algorithm uses n+log n-2 comparisons. Think of elements as competitors, and a tournament is going to rank them. First, compare the elements, as in the tree | / \ | | / \ / \ x x x x this takes n-1 comparisons and each element is involved in comparison at most log … Read more
Fuzzy search algorithm (approximate string matching algorithm)
Considering that you’re trying to do a fuzzy search on a list of school names, I don’t think you want to go for traditional string similarity like Levenshtein distance. My assumption is that you’re taking a user’s input (either keyboard input or spoken over the phone), and you want to quickly find the matching school. … Read more
Search in VS Code for multiple terms
Use regex flag and search for (word1[\s\S\n]*word2)|(word2[\s\S\n]*word1) Made a small extension based on @tonix regex: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=usernamehw.search
Find a matching or closest value in an array
Pass in the number you’re searching for as the first parameter and the array of numbers to the second: function getClosest($search, $arr) { $closest = null; foreach ($arr as $item) { if ($closest === null || abs($search – $closest) > abs($item – $search)) { $closest = $item; } } return $closest; }
Limit search to specified Folders or File Types in Visual Studio?
Yes, in the find/replace window you can: specify the file types in the “Look at these file types” option and choose the folders in the … button of the “Look in” option.
How to check if a specific value exists at a specific key in any subarray of a multidimensional array?
Nothing will be faster than a simple loop. You can mix-and-match some array functions to do it, but they’ll just be implemented as a loop too. function whatever($array, $key, $val) { foreach ($array as $item) if (isset($item[$key]) && $item[$key] == $val) return true; return false; }
Search in html source with GOOGLE? [closed]
I’ve come across the following resources on my travels (some already mentioned above): HTML Mark-up-focused search engines Nerdydata I’d also like to throw in the following: Huge, website crawl data archives Common Crawl – ‘years of free web page data to help change the world’ (over 250TB+) How can we analyze this crawl data? For … Read more
VIM, incremental search: How can I jump to the next result and get it highlighted?
The customary key for jumping to the next search result is ‘n’. I’m not entirely sure what you mean about highlighting – all search results should be highlighted if hlsearch is set, and for me it makes no difference if I go to the next result with ‘n’ or with “https://stackoverflow.com/”.
How do I search in all files of my project using VIM?
I’ve found an even better solution for this: FZF It simply searches through everything in your project asynchronously using the :Ag command.