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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/03/2016 10:28, Dennis wrote:<br>
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<font size="+1">When source files become big, the search function
becomes very important.<br>
Does anyone share my desire for the Search function in Lazarus
to be smart enough to skip those commented out texts?<br>
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I often comment out a portion of the source files before
permanently deleting it (after I am really sure the new code is
better than the old ones).<br>
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I hope the IDE will one day be smart enough to skip those
commented text.<br>
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Also, sometimes I use meaningful english words as my routine and
variable names. A search on those names will then also return
those words in my commented txt. </font><br>
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You can use find identifier references. IIRC that can skip comments.
But it also skips identifiers of the same name, if they are not the
same (e.g a field of equal name defined in a different class, or
local var)<br>
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Another method with similar results, is to add "deprecated 'find
me';" to the identifier you are interested, and compile.<br>
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