Find across project

[LGR]

One feature that would be extremely helpful for projects that use multiple units would be to have find and replace that would search all open tabs for a text string, and find all occurrences in all units in the project, rather than only the open tab.

[jpc]

are you sure about this? there might be local labels you would not want to be affected , i think it would be difficult to oversee the consequences as the concerned units might be used elsewhere.

[LGR]

Maybe I wasn't clear. This should be an option. You can look across units, or you can look only in the open tab. The reason why this should be an option is that often you need to see if old code in another tab is interfering with a variable. Alternatively, since there currently is no summary of used and unused variables, this would be a way to see if certain variables aren't used any more.

Of course, it depends on the number of global variables used. Some programs, by their nature, use a lot of global variables.

I think that the proper way to look at it is, if everything were all in one tab, would finding still be useful? You still have the same problem, making sure that you're not confusing local with global.

[jpc]

ok, i understand better now, ideally this would have an option to be lmlited by scope perhaps.

[janko.kaljevic]

Hello,

You can use Find in Files tool (ALT + F3) with "All opened tabs" checkbox checked, to search string in all opened units.
But at the moment this tool does not offer find and replace option.

I will put it on our wish list.

Best regards.

[LGR]

Ok. Excellent! I was using ctl-F, and didn't see that option. Replace isn't very important. This is the important part, because it allows me to quickly search for all usages of a global variable. Also, since there is no longer a cross-tabulation of variable usage, this will allow me to look for unused variables.

I would say that some sort of label cross-reference tool should be higher priority than the "replace" function. The only real use for replace would be if you want to rename labels, which is sometimes a good thing.

I think there are a lot of features like this that I don't even see, and I don't know if there isn't a better way to point people to them. Maybe a wiki or something?

[janko.kaljevic]

Hello,

Thanks for the input.
It will be considered.

Best regards.