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Wish: More find in files

by Ashley Leach · in Torsion · 07/25/2007 (8:36 pm) · 10 replies

Just wondering how easy it would be to add a second "Find in Files" Box for torsion.

Sometimes when refactoring i will search for the original item and the changing item to compare where they are used.
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Torque Owner Michael Bacon
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#1
09/10/2007 (3:28 pm)
This is a similar request so I'll add it here.

I'd like to be able to limit my find in files to specific Mod folders without having to type in the whole thing.

In the 'Look In' box I'd like to be able to type: "Project\My Project" instead of "E:\AWG\My Project\Game\My Mod"

Perhaps all of the roots folders of the project folder could be added to the combo box under "Project".


I ask this because my project contains several sub-projects and every time I find in files I get duplicates from each one of the folders.


edit: I want to add my support for the original request. DevStudio has two find result windows, why not Torsion?

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#2
09/10/2007 (3:53 pm)
I'll add one to this myself--I'd like to have a "in Current Project (only)" selection. I sometimes am referring to 3 or 4 different script projects over the course of a day or so, and each time I have moved to a new project, I have to manually re-browse to the correct one for searching, instead of just having "Find all Files ...in Current Project".

Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
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#3
09/10/2007 (4:00 pm)
I'll add one more: File searches should be cached in the same way as Ultraedit and Visual Studio. As someone who frequently uses FIF I would greatly benefit from a sped up search.

Torque Owner James Terry
#4
09/11/2007 (10:23 am)
Torsion used to have a Current Project search in beta

Torque Owner James Terry
#5
09/26/2007 (9:38 am)
Or maybe just a "Find in Active Mods" functionality

Torque Owner Blake Drolson
Imminent Games
#6
09/27/2007 (8:52 pm)
I would add I would like to see a find in search results. So often I am looking thru all uses of say a function, then I want to search the results of the find operation for a second symbol. Right now I do it by hand, or copy and paste it into an editor of some sort. Be much slicker to right click the find results and get a "find" function.

Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
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#7
11/28/2007 (8:26 pm)
Are there any plans to add find in files caching? It is the one missing feature that noticeably slows development on a large project. Since functions and variables are potentially spread out through hundreds of files, you have to frequently search all files.

Ultraedit has a very good find in files cache system. It will release the cache after a period of time so the memory hit isn't that bad.

Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#8
11/29/2007 (12:02 pm)
@Peter - I'll keep that in mind, but there isn't any existing plan at the moment.

Associate Orion Elenzil
Real Life Plus
#9
11/29/2007 (12:12 pm)
VS has the fastest find-in-files i know of, unless you're using wildcards.

Torque Owner James Terry
#10
11/29/2007 (2:45 pm)
Pretty sure that VS uses its intellisense database to help augment search speeds, thats why you can right click and find all references just about instentaniously