Find Dialog Box (Visual LISP IDE)

Specifies the text you want to find, replace, or select and controls the scope and results of the search.

Note: The Visual LISP IDE is available on Windows only.

List of Options

The following options are displayed.

Find What

Specifies the text string you want to find. Enter a text string, including any wild-card characters, or choose one of the most recently used strings from the drop-down list.

Search

Specifies the text or files to search for the text entered in the Find What box.

Current Selection

Search is limited to only the text highlighted in the text editor window.

Current File

Search is performed on all the text in the active text editor window.

Find in Project

Prompts you to specify the name of the Visual LISP (PRJ) project you want to search.

It will search all the files in the project and display all matches in a new output window.

Find in Files

Allows you to specify a folder that contains the AutoLISP files you want to search in for the text.

Optionally, search can look in all the subfolders of the specified folder as well. All the matches to the text string are displayed in a new output window.

Direction

Specifies the search direction when searching for text within the current file.

Choose Down to search forward (toward the end of the file) from the current cursor position. Choose Up to search backward (toward the beginning of the file) from the current cursor position.

Match Whole Word Only

Finds only whole words specified in Find What.

Text that is part of another word is ignored. When this option is cleared, a match is found for text strings, whether they are single words or parts of other words.

Match Case

Finds only text with uppercase and lowercase characters as specified in Find What.

The case of all characters in the text string must match the case of the text in Find What. When this option is cleared, a match is found for specified text strings regardless of case.

Direction

Position of the matching text string is added as a bookmark.

This lets you return quickly to this text later. Searches that return multiple occurrences of a matching text string results in the addition of a bookmark for each position in the text editor.