Sublime Text open all files containing search term

Question

When I pres ctrl+shift+F to search across all the files in the current scope, I get a new window listing all the files that contain that search term.

How can I quickly open all of these files?

Answer 1

Hold down the F4 key from the Search Results screen, and it will "Navigate to next match" - which causes it to open each file listed in the results.

_{Just a small note, if you are getting 10+ matches per file this method starts to fail because it gets slow.}

Answer 2

Sublime doesn't have the ability to do this out of the box; however the plugin API gives you the power to create a plugin to do something like this fairly simply (depending on how you ultimately want it to work).

I assume there are plugins available for something like this, but for reference purposes here is a simple example:

import sublime
import sublime_plugin

class OpenAllFoundFilesCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit, new_window=False):
        # Collect all found filenames
        positions = self.view.find_by_selector ("entity.name.filename.find-in-files")
        if len(positions) > 0:
            # Set up the window to open the files in
            if new_window:
                sublime.run_command ("new_window")
                window = sublime.active_window ()
            else:
                window = self.view.window ()

            # Open each file in the new window
            for position in positions:
                window.run_command ('open_file', {'file': self.view.substr (position)})
        else:
            self.view.window ().status_message ("No find results")

This provides a command named open_all_found_files which could be bound to a key, added to a menu, added to the command palette, etc.

Using the notion that sublime has a custom syntax for the find results with a scope dedicated to the matching filenames, this collects all such regions and then opens the associated files.

The optional command argument new_window can be passed and set to true to open the files in a new window; leaving it off or setting it to false opens the files in the same window as the find results. You can of course change the default as you see fit.