another IDE wish

[Bern Ertl Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bern Ertl]

It sure would be nice to have an option when finding/replacing to limit the search to the next END (SUB|FUNCTION) statement. I'm often only interested in the FUNCTION or SUB which I currently working on and it is a pain when the next search result is thousands of lines of code away...



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Bernard Ertl

[Borje Hagsten Member Find all posts View Profile Close Borje Hagsten]

I agree. A work-around in current editor is to place the caret at
a sub's or function's first line, "FUNCTION ThisOrThat()..", right-click
with the mouse and chose "Select block". This way, entire sub or
function is selected (found that out after playing around a bit -
next time, I hope PB will include a help file for the editor as well..)

Then, copy selection, open up a new doc, paste, do search and replace,
select and copy all, after which you can return to the original code.
If you have left the sub/function there selected, you can simply paste
the changed code back. I often do this to ensure I don't replace stuff
beyond the sub or function I'm working with.

Unfortunately, "Select block" doesn't work with CALLBACK FUNCTION,
but by manually selecting those, one can still use the same approach.


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