Clear find results on every new find in Sublime Text

Question

Is there a way to clear results every time I do a new Find in Sublime Text (version 3 for this case)?

I dont want to have an history of what was searched before in the Find results tab.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a built in option to do so in the settings. The only method I know to make Sublime 3 "forget" the searched last strings is to erase them from a session file that is created after closing Sublime.

So, below is the method to make Sublime 3 "forget" the last searched strings from a previous session:

1. Go to the Local folder of Sublime, which can be found in the app data folder.

   on Windows:

   %appdata%\Sublime Text 3\Local\
   

   On Linux:

   ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Local/
   

   On OSX:

   ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Local/ 
   

In this folder you will have a file called Session.sublime_session.

2. Edit the file with another editor (say Notepad++), and search for find_history string in it.

3. Erase the quoted value that found between the brackets (this should be your last search string)

For example, If you have the following shown in the Session.sublime_session file:

"find_state":
{
    "case_sensitive": false,
    "find_history":
    [
        "previously_searched_string"
    ],

Then after the deletion it should look like this:

"find_state":
{
    "case_sensitive": false,
    "find_history":
    [
    ],

You can also write a script that will do so automatically after closing Sublime.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

You can just close the Find results tab. When you reopen it (using shift+ctrl+f), it will be empty.