Aha, one can edit ~user/config/folders.cfg (via the jqt Edit menu) to alter the 
Find in Files options.

Is that documented somewhere?


On 6 Aug 2014 15:01:15 -0600, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Go to Edit/Configure/Folders. There you can add whatever additional
> directories you like. I added "System ~install" line so I can search
> everything in the J installation.
> 
> ?Also, dissect is under ?addons/debug/dissect
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Now just how do you recommend that one determine what file to load in
>> order to have access to dissect?
>> 
>> In jqt, unfortunately, the dialog one gets from menu selection Edit > Find
>> in Files does not allow the choice of Addons, just Demos, Projects, and
>> User.
>> 
>> And there seems to be no reasonable way to do a search for 'dissect' when
>> one uses the built-in Help menu.
>> 
>> And the jwiki page http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Dissect
>> doesn't tell how to load it, either.
>> 
>> Of course I can use (under OS X) the Terminal command "mdfind -name
>> dissect.ijs", but why does it have to be so hard to accomplish such a basic
>> and essential thing from within J (without shelling out)??
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:49:36 -0400, Henry Rich <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> The /Dissect/ addon lets you probe a J sentence, even one that contains
>>> complex tacit forms.  It has a colorful but informative display using
>>> gl2 graphics.  It is described at
>>> 
>>> www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Dissect

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