“How can I easily return to where I started having used Visual Studio’s find command to locate something?”
One way of achieving this is….
- Drop a marker (Alt+Home) before you perform your search.
- Hit Esc to return to the marker when you’re finished looking around.
However that’s a lot to remember to do, so why not have CodeRush automate a little more for you.
- Create a new shortcut (Details here)
- Set key 1 to Ctrl+F
- Set command to MarkerDrop
- Check the checkbox that says “after executing this command, pass shortcut to IDE for default handling”
- Set context to Focus\Documents\Source\Code Editor
- Click Ok
CodeRush should now drop a marker whenever you bring up the Find Dialog. which means you only have to remember to hit Esc to collect them.
Bonus marker facts
- Markers are stored in a stack formation so that they leave a sort of trail of breadcrumbs.
- Each successive press of Alt+Home adds a marker to the top of the stack.
- Pressing Esc “Collects” a marker, removing it from the top of the stack and navigating you to the location it represents.
- Collecting a marker doesn’t just restore you to the position in the file it represents, it also restores the view and selection.
- Markers are also removed from the stack when the files they refer to are closed.