I use Geany a lot for maintaining fairly large projects (~25k LOC) and spend a lot of time using "Go to Tag Definition", "Find Document Usage", etc. from the editor context menu. Of course, very often the tag isn't found because the file that is needed hasn't been loaded yet. So the next step is a "Find in Files" search through maybe up to 50 files or so. This seems to be a very natural way of working.
So could the "Find in Files" function be located in the editor context menu along with the other Find and Go to choices? I'm not suggesting that it be moved from the Search pull-down menu, just an alternate way of getting to it. These functions are all logically related especially for this kind of work.
Thanks,
Bob Snyder
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:03:30 -0800, Bob wrote:
I use Geany a lot for maintaining fairly large projects (~25k LOC) and spend a lot of time using "Go to Tag Definition", "Find Document Usage", etc. from the editor context menu. Of course, very often the tag isn't found because the file that is needed hasn't been loaded yet. So the next step is a "Find in Files" search through maybe up to 50 files or so. This seems to be a very natural way of working.
So could the "Find in Files" function be located in the editor context menu along with the other Find and Go to choices? I'm not suggesting that it be moved from the Search pull-down menu, just an alternate way of getting to it. These functions are all logically related especially for this kind of work.
Obviously, technically it's not a big deal at all. Though adding items to the editor menu always was a delicate topic, especially in the lower section around the Find buttons :).
The existing keybinding for Find in Files isn't enough? Just double-click on the word or just place the cursor within the word and hit the keybinding.
Regards, Enrico