This dialog box appears when you type Ctrl+F, press the
button when
available in the toolbar or open the
Edit / 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.
Reuse one of the last 16 searched strings by selecting it
from the
Find drop-down list, or type a new string or
expression to find 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 expression allows you to match
complex families of strings, see the
Regular
expressions page for a description. When this option is
checked, the
helper button to the right of the Find field
lists most usual regular expression constructions.
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 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.
In a Binary Comparison
document, you can find either a basic text string or binary
data using escaped sequences. For example, you can enter '
code' or '
\x63\x6F\x64\x65'.
There is no specific text entry mode for Unicode 16 bits or 32
bits, you have to enter it using escapes (e.g. T\0\0\0 for a
'T' in UTF32 Little Endian).
When using the anti-slash notation, remember
to check the
Regular expression checkbox as this is
indeed part of the regular expression syntax.
The
Replace >> button transforms the dialog
into the
Replace dialog box.
Press
F1 or click on the
Help button while in this dialog box will show
this topic.