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PyScripter
incorporates a powerful search facility that enables you to quickly locate text
strings in files. Using "Find in Files", you can search the
current file, all open files or all files in a directory (optionally including
sub-directories).
To begin a
search, select "Find in Files" from the PyScripter menu. A dialog
will appear like the one below into which you can enter your search criteria.
Note that the word under the cursor or the selected text when calling up this
dialog, will be used as the default search string.
The various
options in the search dialog are as follows:
Text to
Find: The text or regular expression to search for
Options:
Case sensitive: Search
is case sensitive (a and A are treated as different characters)
Whole word: Return
matches that are whole words (delimited by whitespace or punctuation
such as "().,<>-{}!@#$") Note that 0-9 and _ are treated as
part of a word.
Regular expression: The
text to find is a regular expression
Ignore Comments: Ignore
matches in comments for Python files
Where
(search scope):
Current file
only: Only
the file that is currently in focus for editing
Open files: All
files that are currently open in the editor
Project files: All
project files
Search in
directories: All files specified by the Directory
Search options (see below)
Directory
Search:
Note: This
portion of the dialog is only enabled if "Search in directories" is
selected. Custom paremeters are supported
in the directories field.
Directories: A
semicolon separated list of directories to search
"..."
Button: Allows
browsing for a search directory
File masks: Limits
the search to a semicolon separated list of file extensions
Include subdirectories: Enables
recursive searching of the search directories
Once you have
entered the search criteria, click the OK button or press enter to initiate
the search. As the search progresses, results will be shown in the
Find in
Files Results
window. From the results window, you can also perform multi-file search/replace
on the matches.