PhpED: Fastest way to open a file?

Question

I'm looking for a faster way to open files in PhpED projects.

The way I do it is to pull up the Workspace pane with Ctrl+Alt+W (explorer is Ctrl+Alt+E), then Page Up/Page Down to find the file. This is not very effective; it takes to much time to locate the file, mostly since Page Up/Page Down jumps some 50-100 files/folders at a time.

I think I'm looking for something similar to Textmate's "go to file".

Answer 1

Even I have faced the same issue. On the project if you type a file or folder name, phped will take you there. But this is not very helpful if you have lots of file and many duplicates in there.

What I do is "everything". Whenever I need a file, I click on everything tool in the taskbar then type the filename or type folder/filename and then double click it to open in PHPed.

http://lifehacker.com/5054669/everything-finds-windows-files-as-you-type

And yes I presume you are using windows like majority of PHPEd users.

Answer 2

In v9 I can open file from a dropdown Ctrl+Shift+N - I just type for example abc and will display all files matching abc pattern. It certainly supports regular file patterns too. And btw, I don't use it so frequently, used to use Workset feature -- each new work/fix/feature I start with opening new Workset. Don't mess with Workspace. Each workspace may have multiple worksets -- a list of open files, with their breakpoints, with appropriate active project, and so forth. It fully supports current context, so I don't have any problems switching between worsets when I need to return back to some previous things I did some weeks ago. Good job is done at NuSphere. Damn fast IDE.