IDE Window: Find in files: what changed
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Title: IDE Window: Find in files
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| 1 | + | This dialog allows to setup search and replace patterns for searching in multiple files. | |
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| 3 | + | Setup the options and click the Find button at the bottom to start the search. A window will open showing the progress. It contains a button to abort the search, if it takes too long. When all files are searched the [[IDE Window: Search Results|Search Results]] window will open. | |
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| 5 | + | - Text to find | |
| 6 | + | - Replace - check this to enable the replace text field. | |
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| 8 | + | ## Options | |
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| 10 | + | - Case sensitive - distinguish lower and uppercase (for example 'a' and 'A') | |
| 11 | + | - Whole words only - found text must start and end at a word boundary (position between word-chars and non-word-chars) | |
| 12 | + | - Regular expression - treat texts as [[IDE regular expressions]] | |
| 13 | + | - Multiline pattern - for reg-expressions, activates option "dot means also newlines" | |
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| 15 | + | ## Where | |
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| 17 | + | - search all files in project - search in all files, that belong to the current project | |
| 18 | + | - search all open files - search in all files opened in the source editor | |
| 19 | + | - search in directories - search in folder(s) specified in option below | |
| 20 | + | - search in the current file | |
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| 22 | + | ## Directory options | |
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| 24 | + | - Directory - folder paths, where the search starts. Allowed several paths separated by ";", trailing slashes ignored. Use the "..." button to the right to open a dialog to choose a directory. | |
| 25 | + | - File mask - defines mask(s) for the files, that are searched. Only text files will be searched. Examples for masks are: "*.pas" or "*.pas;*.pp;*.inc". The combobox contains last entered masks. | |
| 26 | + | - Include sub directories - allows to search in all subfolders. | |
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| 29 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "IDE Window: Find in files", as it stood on 2015-07-03 after a change by FTurtle, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |