Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- Subject: Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:15:47 -0400
On Jul 20, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Steve Checkoway wrote:
On Jul 20, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:
On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Steve Baxter wrote:
How do you tell it to only search header files?
Hit command-option-F (Find In Project...), click "Options..."
button
and define your file search criteria
You're the fourth person to tell me to open the Options window and
configure the search, and the fourth person who hasn't told me how
to configure such a search.
Having never done this before, I bravely opened the options window,
clicked the add button, named my set "In headers," clicked on the
"Filter files using regex patters: radio buton, clicked just to the
left of the first regex in the list (keep in mind I've never opened
this window before so it was there by default) which is \.(h|H|hxx|
hpp|i)$ and an equal sign appeared. I closed the options window and
changed the pop-up-menu from In project to my newly created In
headers.
if the built in list of criteria
are not good enough for you.
There is no option to search the headers, which I used to use
quite frequently in CW. I'm not saying Xcode can't be configured
to do it, only that it's not a built-in option or even obvious how
to do it. At this point I strongly suspect that once the answer is
revealed it's going to have a real geek feel to it. ;-)
If by geek you mean it took 10 seconds of looking at it, then yes.
If looking at it for 10 seconds was all it took I'd have had it set
up long ago. ;-) The fact that such a basic option requires an
auxiliary window and multiple steps including the use of regexp
supports the notion that the design of Xcode has the geek user in
mind. Sure, I expect an application like Xcode to have power features
and offer lots of control, but I also expect a Mac application to
provide simple, intuitive access to commonly used features.
For a long time I couldn't understand why so many people would ask
questions on the carbon-dev list for which I could find answers in
less than 30 seconds by searching the headers in CW. Now I
understand. ;-)
I don't. This couldn't have been easier to set up.
Nonsense. It could have been a checkbox in the main window that
didn't require five or six steps in a separate window.
In any case, no matter how easy you find it to set up criteria like
this, by requiring the use of the Options window you can't specify
multiple criteria. For example, if you set up a find set for the
system headers and another for your own headers, you can't use them
together to search all headers.
Larry
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