Jext : Search


# Overview #

         The Search menu of the Jext menubar provides feature to find and/or replace text in your documents. There are six available search/replace functions. Three of them only are described in this page as the other ones are completly explained in the Search Menu page.


# Find #

         The Find item displays Jext find dialog box. In this dialog box, three components are grayed: they are activated only if you need to perform a replace operation. To perform a search, simply enter your search pattern in the text field, then press the Find button. Please note the text field remembers of the 25 last typed search pattern.
         Next to the find button, there is a Cancel button. Pressing this button simply disposes the dialog box. At last, there are 4 check boxes at the bottom of the dialog. Those items allow to modify the way the search and replace operations are performed:

  • Ignore Case:  If checked, the case of the letters will be ignored. For instance, using the search pattern java and assuming this item is checked, pressing find button will report JAVA as a match.
  • Save values:  When you quit the find/replace dialog and if this item is checked, then Jext will remember of your settings next time you show up the dialog.
  • In All Files:  Performs the search/replace operation in all the opened files.
  • Use Extende RegExp:  By default, Jext does a plain search. If you check this box, Jext will instead use the Perl5 syntax (which can be used to realize powerful searches).


# Replace #

         Clicking the Replace menu item displays the same dialog box as the Find item. All the features described in the Find section are still available. You just have to know that using the Replace button will replace current match then look for next one. You also have to know that the Replace All button will replace all the matches without asking anything, so take care if you checked the In All Files option. As for the Find feature, the replace text field remembers of the last 25 typed patterns.


# Find All #

         Even though the Find All dialog box is slighty different from the find/replace one, most of the offered features remains the same. That's why Ignore Case, Use Extended RegExp and the text field behaves the same way in both dialogs. Whenever you performs a Find All operation, all the matches are displayed in a list. Clicking an item of the list directly brings you onto the match, selecting it in your document.
         To easily browse through the matches, you can check the option Highlight. If checked, all the matches will be blue underlined in your document.

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by Romain Guy
Last update: 06/16/2000
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