Jump Anywhere

Jump Anywhere is IDA's unified navigation dialog — a single entry point for jumping to any location in the IDB. It accepts a broader range of inputs: names, addresses, expressions, tokens, and identifiers from multiple namespaces.

Jump! dialog

Invocation

• Press G to open Jump Anywhere from any view, or navigate to Jump → Jump anywhere....

• Press G ↓ ↵ to jump back to the last address visited via Jump Anywhere.

• If you prefer the legacy G shortcut behavior bound with Jump to address, you can enable it under Options → Feature Flags.

The dialog opens in history mode — your previous jumps, with their results, one keystroke away (entries from other databases collapse to grey query-only rows).

Jump anywhere - history mode

Jump anywhere - cross-binary history mode

What You Can Type

Numbers

Format	Example
Hex with 0x prefix	0x401000
Hex without prefix (default base)	401000
Decimal	4198400
Octal	0777
Binary	0b101010

Named Symbols

• Regular names: main, printf, etc.

• Dummy names: sub_401000, loc_4010A0, byte_402000, …

• seg+offset

Current-IP Tokens

Token	Meaning
$	Current address
.	Current address (alias)
_	Current address (alias)
ash.a_curip	Processor-dependent current-IP token

Address Interpretation

When the input parses to a number, Jump Anywhere presents it as up to three candidates:

• VA — virtual address

• RVA — relative to image base

• File offset

Segment-Relative Addresses

seg:off form — for example, fs:30 during debugging.

Arithmetic

You can combine any of the above with arithmetic:

main + 0x10
loc_4010A0 - loc_401000
$ + 4

Frame / Function-Local Identifiers

• Stack-frame variables of the current function

• Local labels of the current function

Type-System Identifiers

• Enum symbolic constants

• Local-type names — UDM members are resolvable when Jump Anywhere is invoked from a type listing. Local types are found by either their prettified or their raw name.

Expression-Language Identifiers

• IDC / current extlang expressions: cpu.EIP, etc.

• User-defined extlang globals — IDC extern variables, Python globals, etc. Usable inside arithmetic: main + kq where kq is a user-defined symbol

Use the Evaluate expressions with dropdown in Jump Anywhere options to select the expression-evaluation language. Python globals are only visible when Python is selected.

Result List

• Use ↑ / ↓ / PageUp / PageDown / Home / End to navigate the list.

Results are syntax-colored, and function results show their parameter names. Uncheck Show function signatures in Options to turn this off.

History rows preview their recorded destination, in the view they were jumped to; entries from other databases show a blank pane.

Preview pane

Every navigable row previews live as you move through the list — Disassembly, Pseudocode (already-decompiled functions only), or Hex.

Preview pane - Pseudocode

Preview pane - Hex

The segmented buttons next to the input pick the view and remember your preference. Local-type results preview as a type listing; expression results preview their resolved target.

As of IDA 9.5, the preview pane is always on; the feature flag that disabled it has been removed.

Options

Open the Jump Anywhere options dialog from within the Jump! dialog to configure its behavior. Click the options button in the top-right corner.

Jump! dialog - options

Jump anywhere options

When reopening:

Option	Effect
Show recent navigations	Opens the dialog in history mode (default).
Restore last query results	Reopens with the previous query and its results pre-loaded.

Evaluate expressions with:

Controls the expression-evaluation language used to resolve extlang expressions and globals. Set to None to disable extlang evaluation.

Show function signatures:

Shows function parameter names in results (types are omitted to keep rows short; unnamed parameters show as arg1, arg2, …). Enabled by default.

Configuration

Setting	File	Effect
JUMP_ANYWHERE_MAX_RESULTS	idagui.cfg	Maximum number of result rows shown
JUMP_ANYWHERE_MAX_HISTORY	idagui.cfg	Maximum number of past queries kept in history
ENABLE_INDEXER	ida.cfg	Enables the indexer subsystem that powers the search. Enabled by default.

Limitations

• Search relies on the indexer. With ENABLE_INDEXER=NO, the dialog still parses literal inputs (addresses, names) but doesn't perform similarity search.

• Names defined after the index was built may not appear in results until the index catches up. The indexer runs asynchronously after the database changes.