Re: Xcode's 'Find in Files' UI problems/questions
Re: Xcode's 'Find in Files' UI problems/questions
- Subject: Re: Xcode's 'Find in Files' UI problems/questions
- From: Sarah Carruthers <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:23:31 -0700
Oops, accidentally replied to original poster, not to list:
You are not alone in this, rest assured.
I too am very accustomed to arrowing down through the results list,
while watching the bottom half of the window. I didn't know about
the Tab/Option+Tab though, thanks for the tip! I'm also used to
being able to have multiple find in files results windows open at a
time.
As a result, I almost never use XCode's Find functionality for
anything other than quick "Single File Find". In addition to the
problems you've mentioned, too often it fails to find numerous
instances of some text when using "Find In Project". This
unreliability makes it essentially useless, to me anyway.
I will happily discard Codewarrior completely when XCode's "Find in
Files" (which doesn't really exist anyway, it's either "Find in Open
Files" or "Find in Project"), and Compare Files catches up with
Codewarrior's functionality. I've always thought that these features
were two of Codewarriors best, outshining any other development
environment I've encountered by far. Let's hope it's in XCode's
future...
Until then, I'll continue to have Codewarrior running side by side
with XCode.
Sarah
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Sarah Carruthers
Software Designer
Loud Technologies Canada
Victoria, BC Canada
(250) 382-7709 ext.24
email: email@hidden
On 9-Jun-06, at 11:27 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
Hi all,
One (of several) things I still always switch to CodeWarrior for is
'find in files'. I have a few problems/questions wrt Xcode's 'Find in
Files'...
1) the results window has two main parts: a) above: the list of search
results and b) below: the contents of the text file containing the
result selected above. CodeWarrior is the same. If I select a search
result in the list I can them press the 'tab' key to move the cursor
focus down to the view of the file below. Is there a key press to
move
the selection back up to the list of results? In CodeWarrior it is
Option-Tab. I find it very handy to arrow key through the search
results, tab down, make changes, then option-tab back up, then
continue
arrowing through the results.
2) In CW, every item in the list corresponds to a search result. In
Xcode, an item in the list is either a search result or the name of
the
file (with disclosure triangle). I appreciate that its trying to
group
results by file, which has its good points, but it makes arrowing
through the results quite bizzare! I like to arrow through and
keep my
eyes on the bottom half of the window, and sometimes I find myself not
looking at the term I searched for. Am I alone in disliking this?
3) Are there any tricks to make Xcode search faster? CW has all the
results displayed before Xcode even finishes its "Preparing to
find..."
stage. :(
Thanks,
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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