regular expression search FunctionName.*\{ or FunctionName.*$\s*\{
depending on brace styleOn Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Joakim via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 at 00:13:37 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: >> >> On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 22:49:41 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: >>> >>> So... how do you search for a function definition in D without an IDE? >> >> >> Running `dscanner --help` prints this: >> >> --declaration | -d symbolName [sourceFiles sourceDirectories] >> Find the location where symbolName is declared. This should be more >> accurate than "grep". Searches the given files and directories, or the >> current working directory if none are specified. > > > ^^^^^ > THIS! > > I agree with Ary that grep hits a lot of false positives and all the > formatting tricks don't work with other people's code, plus I've never liked > IDES. Dscanner's D declaration finder has become indispensable in the short > time I've been using it, to the point where I dread going back to searching > for C declarations and getting stuck with grep again.
