Find in document

A find bar searches the document you have open, highlighting every match as you type.

How to reach it

Press ⌘F or ⌘K to open it. The desktop app has no command palette, so both shortcuts open the same find bar there. This differs from the cloud web app, where ⌘K opens the Command Palette and ⌘F falls through to your browser's own find.

Opening a result from a sidebar search also opens the find bar, pre-filled with your search term, and jumps straight to the first match.

Using it

The find bar autofocuses as soon as it opens. Type at least 2 characters to search — Context Raven waits about 120 ms after you stop typing before searching, and shows nothing below the 2-character minimum. Matches highlight live in the document, with a counter such as "3/17", or "No results" when nothing matches.

• Enter / Shift+Enter, or F3 / ⇧F3 (⌘G / ⌘⇧G on macOS, Ctrl+G / Ctrl+⇧G on Windows and Linux), step forward and backward through matches, wrapping from the last match back to the first.
• Esc, the bar's close button, or clicking into the document text closes it.

Matches also appear as markers on the document's scrollbar rail, spread evenly, capped at 150 markers on a document with more matches than that.

Navigating between matches with the keys above is never capped, even past 150 markers on the rail.

On YAML and JSON files

Find works on .yaml and .json files too. Since these render as syntax-highlighted, colored tokens rather than plain text, a single match can visually span more than one color if it crosses a token boundary on the same line.

Limits

Find searches the document that's currently open. To search across every file in a folder, use the sidebar's own search box, which this find bar's pre-fill is fed from — see Sidebar and folders.