[Geany] Workflow for find in files

[Nick Treleaven]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:39:42 -0400
Vineet Jain <vinjvinj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. I use find in files quite often across a large nested source tree.
> One of the problem with the current find in files process is that the
> default behavior is to search in the current folder. Almost in most
> cases, I want to search at the project root. It would be great if
> geany could remember the last entry in the find in files an not update
> the directory based on which dir you are in.

Preferences: General: Miscellaneous: Search: "Use the current file's
directory for Find in Files"

> 2. Also the default behavior for the grep is to search in all files.
> Normally, I would like to search just in *.py files. I've tried
> --include and can't seem to get it working.
> 
> grep -nHIrF --include=*.{py,txt} -- select /some/dir

You can't use {py,txt} - the command is not passed to a Bourne shell.

Instead use "--include=*.py --include=*.txt".

Also the SVN version has a 'Files' field where you can list patterns.

> Has anyone got the include option working with grep in find in files?

Yes.

Nick