Re: Multiple search windows?
Re: Multiple search windows?
- Subject: Re: Multiple search windows?
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:08:08 -0400
On Oct 10, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Arvan Pritchard wrote:
On 09/10/2007 19:06, kwiley wrote:
the global search window enabled not only project search but also
directory search and accepted regular expressions, and now this
lack of multiple search windows issue
You can search for regular expressions - there's a choice of
Textual, Regular Expression or Definitions, and you can search
directories from the Project Find window - click the Options Button
and
I dislike having to open a separate window for those settings. It
creates a mental discontinuity between them that I don't get when all
of the settings are in the same window.
select Search in files and folders - although Spotlight is
sometimes more convenient.
Multiple searches would be nicer, but you can get at cached results
of previous searches by picking them from the "Find:" list on the
Project Find window (and of course you can also then refresh them
by pressing the find button).
You can do this, but sometimes it's useful to be able to have more
than one set of results available for viewing at the same time, which
Xcode can't do.
Also, consider the following scenarios:
- I run 10 searches. In the process of reviewing the results of these
10 searches I see something in two of them -- possibly unrelated to
my current task -- I want to revisit later. In CodeWarrior I leave
those two windows open and close the other eight. Then later I bring
those windows forward and do whatever it was I wanted to do. In Xcode
I have a popup with 10 search terms in it and quite probably can't
remember which of those 10 I wanted to work on later.
- I run 10 searches, of which only two or three are successful in
yielding something useful, but to view the results of those searches
I have to remember which of the 10 in the popup they were.
- I run multiple searches with the same search text, but with
different options. In that case there's no way to see the previous
search results because a given search string only appears in the menu
once no matter how many different searches you did with it. So if,
for example, you searched two different sets of files, only the last
results would be available in the Find window.
It's just a bad design, with some minimal ability to work around its
limitations. It's always been a bad design and it continues to be a
bad design. On the bright side, how often do you really need to
search files for a text string anyway? ;-)
Larry
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