Re: Global Search Question
Re: Global Search Question
- Subject: Re: Global Search Question
- From: Dave <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:47:33 +0100
On 8 Apr 2014, at 16:41, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
>> The Project Wide Search and Replace feature on XCode 5.1 seems to only allow one term to be searched for regardless of how many windows you have open.
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>> I’d like to be able to do a Global Search on one window, Command Double Click a result to get a new window, select something in the new window and hit Command-E and then do another global search without affecting the search first window. Is this possible with XCode 5.1? If not, then I can’t see the point of replicating the seach bar panel in every window, why not just have a search window?
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> Performing the search in the second window does change the system-wide search string but doesn't change the search *results* in the first window, so it still makes sense to have the panel in each window.
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> Sometimes the system-wide search string isn't what you want but I find it very useful most of the time. I've occasionally been surprised at a developer who doesn't know about Command-E -- how do they get anything done?? :)
I’m changing something in a lot of files, the “results” do stay the same, which is the problem, i want them to change. e.g. I do a seach, then change the first 100 instances of "fred" to “george", then I look back into the serach results and I have lost my place! If I repeat the same search, the first 100 instances now don’t display, leaving just the ones that need attention.
> I wonder if it would be useful for "power users" to have a shortcut that restores the Find pasteboard to the last search string that was used in the current window. It still would seem like a gesture too many for some people but might help a little in your scenario.
Yes, it would, and we used to have something better than that, in that there used to be a Pop Up Menu that showed the last N Search Terms but for some reason it’s been taken out.
Would be better just to put that code back in, IMO!
Thanks
Dave
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