Sublime Text open all files containing search term - sublimetext2

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.

Answer 3

You can't do that from within Sublime Text.
If you are using Linux/UNIX/OSX you can open all the files that contain a particular string or matching regex by using a combination of grep and xargs on the command line using a command like this:
grep -rlZ "search_str_or_regex" /path/to/search/* | xargs -0 subl
// Command line options (may vary between OSes):
//
// grep -r Recurse directories
// grep -l Output only the filenames of the files which contain the search pattern
// grep -Z Output null terminated filenames
// xargs -0 Input filenames are null terminated
// xargs subl Sublime Text executable
//
// The combination of -Z and -0 allows filenames containing spaces to be handled
The files will be opened in the most recently used Sublime Text window. Add -n or --new-window after subl to have them opened in a new window.
If you are using Windows, consider using GOW or Cygwin.

Answer 4

I had to change the Code of OdatNurd. I had problems with the ":" and the " " at the end of the Filename... Under Mac OS Big Sur...
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class OpenAllFoundFilesCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
"""
Collect the names of all files from a Find in Files result and open them
all at once, optionally in a new window.
"""
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:
file = self.view.substr (position)
#print(file)
file = file.replace(":","")
window.run_command('open_file', {'file': file.strip()})
else:
self.view.window().status_message("No find results")
def is_enabled(self):
return self.view.match_selector(0, "text.find-in-files")