Search in F3-Preview Function, how?

[GraemeC]

Currently, when I want to search for a word in a string of text files, I hit F3 twice, enter the search text, and go through a mess of files one by one. After entering the term that first time, I don't have to do it again after the first file, as Total Commander remembers it.

Question: How do I change the search term to something else? So far, the only way I've found to do that is to exit Total Commander entirely and start it up again. Is there an easier way?

[petermad]

Press Ctrl+F in stead of F3

[GraemeC]

For the second F3, you mean? Yes, that works. Thanks.

[Hacker]

GraemeC,
Or F7.

HTH
Roman

[cppguy16]

I use Alt+F7 to search in files. You can specify the search directory, file masks, whether to search in ZIP, and the text (or even binary) to search for. Multiple masks should be separated by space, such as *.cpp *.c *.h *.cs. You can do regexp search, and control case sensitivity, whole words only, Unicode, Hex, etc. You can save your frequent searches, and also specify date range, size. It's quite powerful. Even better if you learn regular expressions.