hi all I'm sure may of you use UltraEdit ... use that for searching in files, far smarter the stupid XP ... and tells you exactly on which line the text is (and you can edit it right the was as well ...).
just in case: www.ultraedit.com Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards Flavio Hendry ---------------------------------------------------------------- TYDAC NEWS http://www.tydac.ch/german/index.php?menu=News_actual ---------------------------------------------------------------- ############ Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Kind Regards ############ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ############ TYDAC AG - http://www.tydac.ch #### #### Geographic Information Solutions #### #### Luternauweg 12 -- CH-3006 Bern ############ Tel +41 (0)31 368 0180 - Fax +41 (0)31 368 1860 ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: "B. Thoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: MapInfo-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:57:11 -0700 (MST) Subject: RE: MI-L How to Search MapBasic Files Using XP's Bloody Stupid Se arch Assistant > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Simmonds, Ashley (OPT) wrote: > > > i was looking for information in some PHP files the other days, and > that > > frickin mutt (now switched off/deleted) tells me what i want isn't > in them. > > That's the only puppy I've ever wanted to kick. > > > why the hell it can't just accept that i want the "search system" > to treat > > WHATEVER FILES I TELL IT TO as text files i'll never know. > > Yes! It LETS YOU PICK ANY FILE SPEC, but it doesn't tell that it > won't > search inside those files. How stupid is that? Especially since the > search > assistant worked fine in W2K!! > > > so does that registry patch mean i'd have to do it for EVERY type > of file i > > want to search in? bah, i'll make my own. > > Well, it works for *.txt, but not for .c, .h, .bas, .php, ... etc. > You can add files using that reg fix just by changing the extension. > Seems > like a lot of work to me. > > Hasn't any programmer at Microsoft noticed this yet? At the MS XP > General > Support forum, the "Why doesn't the Search work?" question occurs > once for > every three other questions. XP must not be for Real Programmers. I > bet > the engineers at Microsoft are secretly using Linux and XP is just > their > little joke on the rest of us. > > - Bill Thoen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com > | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 10578 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10579
