Find dialog box

 

 

This dialog box appears when you type Ctrl+F, press the  button when available in the toolbar or open the Edit / Find and Replace / Find... menu. It enables you to find a an expression in a text document, or to find a file in a folder hierarchy, by its name.

Enter the string to search in the Find field and click on the Find button to move the cursor on the next occurrence of the string. A message box will inform you that no more occurrence is found.

Check the Match whole word box to match the specified string only if the string is a whole word, not just part of a word. Check the Match case box match the uppercase and lowercase characters you enter in the Find field. Search up specifies whether the search continues up or down.
Check Wrap to make the search automatically continues when it reaches the beginning or end of a file.
Check Regular Expression to search a regular expression. Searching regular epxression allows you to match complex families of strings, see the Regular expressions page for a description.

You can use the following items to reduce the searched sections in the document:

• Selection only: when chosen, only the selected portion of the document is searched.
• Within differences only: when selected, the searched section is further reduced by searching only portions of the document which are highlighted as differences.

Mark All adds a bookmark in the margin in front of each line that contains a match for the text entered in the Find field.

 In a Folder Comparison document, you can enter a simple regular expression to match files by their name.

The Replace >> button transforms the dialog into the Replace dialog box.

 In a Folder Comparison document, the Find function does not browse items marked as hidden (corresponding to a filter by name/status/date or hidden manually) even if displayed on screen.

Press F1 or click on the Help button while in this dialog box will show this topic.

See also

• Replace dialog box
• Text File Edition
• Writing patterns for filenames