Selecting file in 'Find in files'

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Thu May 15, 2003 12:55 pm

Is there a limit to the number of files that can be included in a Find in files dialog?

I've just tried to select 39 files in a group of software files and the In files list stays exactly the same each time.

Any hints

How about a future version incorporating a checkbox to select all files in workspace

Cheers,

Steve

trids · Post by **trids** » Fri May 16, 2003 11:04 am

Not sure about the file limit in the [Find in Files] dialogue.

But regarding your suggestion ..

How about a future version incorporating a checkbox to select all files in workspace

.. there is an option on the [Find] dialogue, to look In all documents, which refers to all those currently open. Hope this helps?

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Mon May 19, 2003 6:36 am

trids wrote:.. there is an option on the [Find] dialogue, to look In all documents, which refers to all those currently open. Hope this helps?

Not really - I did try that but what it doesn't do is show you just where the string is that you are looking for in all the files. As far as I know, you need to search through them all individually. Much better in my view to generate the list that one gets with Find in files

Cheers,

Steve

trids · Post by **trids** » Mon May 19, 2003 7:37 am

You're right, Steve .. best the in all adocuments option can give you is tagged lines, which doesn't help if you already have lines tagged!

I agree, a command results list of hyperlinked hits would be cool. I'd vote for this if you raised a poll in the [Enhancements] forum.

Meantime, you might be able to build your own solution:
Record a macro that copies the list of currently open filenames to clipboad (Edit>>CopyOther>>AllFileNames), and then saves that into a seprate (temporary) file; then pass this file to the grep utility which you can find mention of elsewhere in these forums; and capture the output of the grep utility into command results with hyperlinks.

Now if I could paste such a macro here, wouldn't that be useful?

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Mon May 19, 2003 7:45 am

trids wrote:I agree, a command results list of hyperlinked hits would be cool. I'd vote for this if you raised a poll in the [Enhancements] forum.

Is this not what you get with Find in Files?

Double-click on a result in the Search Results window and it takes you straight to the block of code and the correct line. My problem was that I couldn't seem to select all the files I wanted.

I have suggested that a workspace could be selected in Find in Files but being able to select all open files would also be very useful on occasion.

Cheers,

Steve