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I've previously used an editor called Prism which had an invaluable feature no other editors seem to have.

If a word is highlighted you could so a search for its usage in the active file, with the results shown in a window which wasn't constrained to the normal editor window.

The results listed provide hotlinks to the appropriate lines in the active window (as can be done with compile errors from the TextPad Command Results).

By positioning the 'Usage' results window to the side of the screen you could do very fast searches for assignments to a particular signal in the current window without having to swap back and forward between different active windows.

This would probably be do-able in TextPad if the Command Results window could be un-docked and moved outside the normal TextPad window.

It's hard to describe how useful this is without a demonstration, but I would _really_ like to have it in, so please all use your imaginations .

So is this just another way of saying that you want the Search Results window to be a special window, and not just "another document" is it is currently? That way it could float above the current document, and even be docked, and then you could quickly see a listing of every line in the current document in which search term exists...

Or is there something more to it?

> So is this just another way of saying that you want the Search Results
> window to be a special window, and not just "another document" is it is
> currently? That way it could float above the current document, and
> even be docked, and then you could quickly see a listing of every line
> in the current document in which search term exists...
> Or is there something more to it?


If a macro could be written to just do a search in the current document
then yes.

Some people might like to have the command window offset for compile results etc too.

Perhaps I should re-word the question to just ask about a floating command results window?

Nial.

***NO MORE VOTES FOR THIS SUGGESTION PLEASE***

I've been able to implement the 'find all occurrences in this file'
search, see the general forum for details (thread of that name).

The other aspect, the dockable results window has been asked for
in the thread "Dockable Command Results and Search Results"
above, please go there and vote for that instead.

Jeffy, can you exclude this poll from your results?

Nial.

Nial wrote:Jeffy, can you exclude this poll from your results?

You got it. Excluded.