IDE Window: Find in files
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This dialog allows to setup search and replace patterns for searching in multiple files.
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 Search Results window will open.
- Text to find
- Replace - check this to enable the replace text field.
Options
- Case sensitive - distinguish lower and uppercase (for example 'a' and 'A')
- Whole words only - found text must start and end at a word boundary (position between word-chars and non-word-chars)
- Regular expression - treat texts as IDE regular expressions
- Multiline pattern - for reg-expressions, activates option "dot means also newlines"
Where
- search all files in project - search in all files, that belong to the current project
- search all open files - search in all files opened in the source editor
- search in directories - search in folder(s) specified in option below
- search in the current file
Directory options
- 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.
- 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.
- Include sub directories - allows to search in all subfolders.
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.