Improve Search Options (Rapid)

[Will Fastie]

Search currently allows the following scopes:

• Current Document
• All Open Documents
• Selected Text

Add the following:

• All Selected Documents
• Selected Folder
• All Documents in Project (might be the same as selecting the root folder of the project)
• Specific File Types (e.g., PHP files, CSS files, etc.) in Project

If I could only get one of these, I'd opt for Selected Folder assuming that the project's root folder could be selected as well as any subfolder. By default, the search of a folder would search all its subfolders.

[Aivars]

You are probably looking for Find in Files dialog. It's under menu Search -> Find in Files. It has those options.

[Will Fastie]

Thanks for pointing that out. I find it confusing to have two search mechanisms but that may be the result of having used a search feature (Expression Web) that included everything in one dialog. I'll experiment.

[Will Fastie]

After a month of use, I'm still finding it awkward to deal with two search dialogs. I remain convinced that a single, comprehensive (or "smart") search dialog is better.