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Archived Beta Discussions => SlickEdit 201x Beta Discussions => SlickEdit 2016 v21 Beta Discussion => Topic started by: Marcel on September 04, 2016, 04:05:50 AM

Title: b4: Find-in-Files file types
Post by: Marcel on September 04, 2016, 04:05:50 AM

I am constantly fighting with the FiF file types. When my search scope is a project, I would like to have a specific user-configured set of FiF filetypes tied to that project, with a default that roughly corresponds to the type of project I'm working on.

Here is one of my use-cases:

• Working on a C# project, the file types needs to be *.cs and whatever else I may have manually added, e.g. *.xml
• Switching over to a C++ project, the file types should be the littany of C++ related files, again augmented with my own additions

Swapping out the file types should be automatic.  With the current implementation, I have to remember to modify the list every time I'm doing a search, and quite often forget to do it, with dangerous consequences.  The F7/F8 stacks are a poor substitute and often get jumbled (Find/Replace settings end up in Find and vice-versa).

Ideally, I would like to have named sets of FiF settings (Look in, File Types, Exclude) which I can tie to a project, to cover for cases where I want to start a search in a different place of the project, or have a lot of excludes.

Title: Re: b4: Find-in-Files file types
Post by: Graeme on September 04, 2016, 07:02:16 AM

For workspace and project searches, how about searching with file types set to *.* and exclude types set to all the file types you never want to search in, across all projects.