Custom Query (1030 matches)

Open a largish file, e.g. cocoa-editor.lisp

Right click in it and select Duplicate this window.

Go back to the first window and scroll it down to near the end, and click somewhere in the text.

Go back to the second window, and scroll by large amounts and try to click in the text. For me, most of the time, clicking places the insertion point in an apparently random location in the buffer, instead of where I clicked.

This was requested by a user.

In addition to making file searching capabilities more visible than our current m-x grep, the MCL search files command had the useful option to not search comments (which is implemented by just checking, after the fact, whether the found location is in a comment, and skipping it if it is). We could also add an option of regular expression search or not.

1.8-prerelease-r15247M (DarwinX8664)

In teh Search Files dialog, mis-queueing an In Folder choice, then searching, can require aborting a big silly search. Perhaps the search button could be converted into an Abort button. Meanwhile closing the dialog/search window causes this output in the AltConsole, Re-starting the Search Files dialog, changing the In Folder and leaves the Search button inoperable until the Find field is changed.

Error: #<STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM :CLOSED #x302000F57E2D> is closed While executing: CCL::STREAM-IS-CLOSED, in process Monitor thread for external process (grep -i -r -I -s -c -e defclass --include *.lisp /Users/user/)(15).

;;; ;;; #<PROCESS Monitor thread for external process (grep -i -r -I -s -c -e defclass --include *.lisp /Users/user/)(15) [Active] #x302000F573CD> requires access to Shared Terminal Input ;;; Type (:y 15) to yield control to this thread. ;;;