Search dialog:

These fields and options are available in the Seach dialog (in addition to the common options):

Search dialog

Search dialog, 'Simple Dialogs' version.

Search:
String or pattern to be searched. - If a block is highlighted, it is used as search string.
- If no block highlighted, this field may be initially empty or it may contain previous string used by wildfilew, or previous string used in any search (current search string). This can be selected from the options dialog.
- If you leave this field empty, previous search string is used.
Case sensitive
- check this box for case sensitive search (upper case and lower case characters are considered different characters).
Word
- check this to search whole words only.
Skip comments
- check this to ignore search strings that occur inside comments. Currently only recognizes C and C++ comments (although thes works with many other languages, too, for example Java and Vedit macros.)
Search mode:
Simple - Silmple string search, no codes
Pattern - Use Vedit pattern matching codes
Regular Expressions    - Use Regular Expressions, minimal length
Reg Exp (Max) - Use Regular Expressions, maximal length
Display matched lines as:
Visual / edit - When occurrence found, go to edit mode. Press Visual Exit to continue search.
List with filenames - Create list of search results with filenames and line numbers.
Extract w/o filenames - Create list of lines containing searched string. No filenames or line numbers included.
List filenames only; - List names of filens that contain the search string.
- Click this button to go to Search & Replace dialog box. Any options you have entered so far will be retained.
- Expand dialog into Full Dialog. For additional options available in full dialog, see Additional fields in Full Dialog.

Search results

If you select "List with filenames" in "Display matched lines as" section, Wildfilew.vdm creates file search.tmp for the search results. The file is opened in an edit window. The file displays full pathname of each file where the search string was found, followed by all the lines where the string was found.

Double-click on the line in this listing. This opens the corresponding file and moves cursor to the line where the string was found.

You can save search.tmp with different filename if you want to keep the search results for later use. This way you can have multiple search results in different windows.

Note: Wildfilew.vdm creates a double-click event macro if you do not have one already loaded. If you do already have a double-click event macro loaded, it is not overwritten. If you want to replace your old event macro with the one created by Wildfilew.vdm, you must manually empty text register 116 before running Wildfilew.

Related topics:

Replace dialog
Fields common to all main dialogs
Additional fields in Full Dialog
Wildfile - Multi file processing