[lazarus] Patch Find in Files.

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Tue Jul 29 02:12:45 EDT 2003


On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:58:40 -0400
Bob Wingard <bwingard at gt.rr.com> wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:43:57 -0400
> >Bob Wingard <bwingard at gt.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> 
> >To the message window:
> >The message window is good place for now. 
> >It is planned to add a special "Search result" window. This window will
> >support highlighting, updates and context information. This way search
> >results are not lost on every simple source error. Also it can be
> >extended to show context information, like a few lines in front and
> >behind the found place. This will be useful especially for the search of
> >identifiers and renaming of identifiers/code.
> >
> >  
> >
> Do you plan for the search result window to be a tab in the current 
> Message Dialog using some form of the Synedit component?

Synedit and the position highlighter can be used for it. 
I'm not sure if the search results and the messages should be combined. The
search result with context information needs much more space than the
messages. So I think, the default should be a separate window. When we have
docking the user can combine them.


Mattias






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