Missing 'Find in Selection' in VS Code when editing Jupyter Notebooks

Question

The 'find in selection' button is missing from VSCode when working with Jupyter Notebooks. It slows down development so I would like to ask if anybody knows how to activate it?

First image shows the search/replace when in a python file. Second image shows the missing button when in a notebook.

Python file:

Jypyter Notebook:

Answer 1

The.ipynb file is written by a kind of markdown. The only way is to rightclick the tab and reopen.ipynb by builtin text editor for now.

Answer 2

As Jan 2022, within a cell in a jupyternotebook you can search and replace in selection when pushing F3 . As comment before, this function is not available when using Ctrl + H

More info:

• How to find and replace text in a single cell when using Jupyter extension inside Visual Studio Code
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/141493
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/121218