FindFile Plugin


Original Author:  Nicholas O'Leary
Maintainer:   Anthony Keeley

Introduction

This plugin allows you to search within a filesystem for any files that match a given filter.


Features


Change Log

Sept 9 2008: 1.1

Mar 23 2004: 1.0

Jan 20 2004: 0.4

Nov 18 2003: 0.3

Nov 06 2003: 0.2

Nov 03 2003: 0.1


Usage

Performing a search

There are two ways to launch a search: Launching a search will open the FindFile dialog. The results appear in the FindFile Results pane, where further actions can be applied.

Working with results

The pane displays the results in a similar manner to the Hypersearch Results. Each search is listed as a parent node, with the results as children.

Right-clicking on a search (ie parent node) provides the following options:

Clicking on a result will switch to that file, if it is already open in a buffer.

Double-Clicking on a result will attempt to open the file if it is not already open, or alternatively close it if it is. As with the 'Open all' option, it will only allowed recognisable file extensions to be opened unless that feature has been disabled.

Right-clicking on a result provides the following options:


Known bugs and issues


Future development

There are a few tweaks I would like to make to this plugin, to make it look and act more like hypersearch, and to make it a little more robust. Expect most of these changes in the v1.2 release.


Feedback

Please send all feedback to the maintainer or original author mentioned in the header.

Version

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