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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

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?

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

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?

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