How to cancel an ongoing find/search in Sublime Text3

Question

How can I cancel an ongoing search in sublime text? basically when I do a recursive folder search for a particular text using

ctrl + shft + F

But sometimes it runs infinitely given a bad search pattern. How to cancel a bad search of course without closing Sublime text?

Answer 1

One of the way to stop the search I use is to search again with an invalid path. That does the trick for me. Hope that helps

Answer 2

It is currently not possible to stop a "Find in Files" search once it has begun. Closing the "Find Results" panel or tab doesn't affect it - it only means you won't see any further results that are found.

It has been logged as an issue here: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1481