Re: Setting up searches in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
Re: Setting up searches in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- Subject: Re: Setting up searches in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:56:35 -0400
On Jul 20, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Chris Espinosa wrote:
On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:49 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:
On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:57 PM, glenn andreas wrote:
The responses I'm getting seem to be making my point. So far
I've gotten three replies to my question and each time someone
points me to the Options window*, but no one has told me how to
configure a search of the headers. I'm sure it can be done, but
IMO, it would be obvious how to do so if Xcode's Find system
were designed better, and it says something that no one has
actually explained how to do it.
Let's take a quick stab at it - bring up the options window. We
want to make a new "Find Set", so click "Add..." and type in "In
Project Headers".
Click the radio button that says "Filter files using regex
patterns:". Click in the first column next to the pattern "\.(h|
H|hxx|hpp|i)$" so that the value is "=".
Close window. Done.
Now just select "In Project Headers" in the popup when you want
to only search in the project headers.
Thank you. :-)
Now, while this does work, it is far less than ideal because:
- Amazingly enough, not everyone is comfortable with regexp.
Something this basic shouldn't require regexp (or the use of a
second window) IMO. This is one of the things I intensely dislike
about Xcode: it just isn't user friendly. You can do what you need
to do, but even simple things tend to be buried in some not-very-
Mac-like interface that offers a lot of power and flexibility --
assuming you can figure out how to use it.
- An option that requires a visit to the Options window is an
option that can't easily be added to another search. For example,
suppose I have three find sets defined, and I use them when
searching the headers sometimes and source files at other times.
It sounds like Xcode is going to make me set up six find sets
instead of just letting me set up three and turn a check box on
and off in the main Find window.
Larry, either you're not reading what people write very carefully
or not trying this at home.
I don't know why you would say this. Glenn's solution is the only one
anyone's given me to try and I had tried it (which is why I said it
works).
In three simple steps:
1) In any project, do Find in Project and click Options.
2) Click "Add..." and enter the name "Headers".
3) Set the radio buttons and check box to "Search in files and
folders", press the (+) button under its list, and add "/usr/
include" to the list.
Yes, these are simple steps, but they doesn't work because usr isn't
listed in the open file dialog Xcode presents. I only see
Applications, Developer, Library, System, Users, an alias to User
Guides And Information, and a few folders I've created, the exactly
same items I see when I open the root directory of my system volume
in the Finder. Apparently Xcode isn't having Nav Services show
invisible folders. Am I missing something obvious?
Read carefully:
- Note that no RegExes were harmed in the making of this Options set.
- The Project Find popup now has an entry for "Headers" that you
can use without ever clicking "Options" again.
- The find set is stored in your user prefs, and is available for
all projects.
For the sake of discussion we'll assume it's in my popup, but an
inherent limitation in this approach is that I can't choose multiple
configurations from that popup to be used in the same search. If I
use my "System Headers" find set I can't use any of the other find
sets I might have created. Right? This is a big reason I think common
options like my headers, system headers, and source files should be
checkboxes in the main window.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/
XcodeUserGuide/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/01_07_pr_navigate/
chapter_10_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002669-BABDIJCC
There are admittedly a lot of things that suck about the Project
Find window, but it is not hard to set it up to create searches in
arbitrary folders.
Unless, apparently, they're invisible. :-)
Larry
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