[BUG] Find in Files won't search all files

[karlnordstrom]

I have the same problem. I'm attempting to search for a string in a large file and I would like to see a list of matches. Unfortunately, I always get 0 matches, even though the string is in the file in several places. I can do the regular find and it works.

This is the first thing that I've tried with Sublime and it doesn't work. Otherwise, it looks like a really elegant text editor.

I figured out how to show the console, and for some reason it thinks that it is a binary file. It's a text file that is readable in any text reader including Sublime. It doesn't help to change the extension to .txt.

I would attach the file in question, but it is from work and it's not the kind of thing I can post on the internet.

[agibsonsw]

Check the following in your default or user settings:

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    "folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS"],
    "file_exclude_patterns": ["*.pyc", "*.pyo", "*.exe", "*.dll", "*.obj","*.o", "*.a", "*.lib", "*.so", "*.dylib", "*.ncb", "*.sdf", "*.suo", "*.pdb", "*.idb", ".DS_Store", "*.class", "*.psd", "*.db"],
    // These files will still show up in the side bar, but won't be included in
    // Goto Anything or Find in Files
    "binary_file_patterns": ["*.jpg", "*.jpeg", "*.png", "*.gif", "*.ttf", "*.tga", "*.dds", "*.ico", "*.eot", "*.pdf", "*.swf", "*.jar", "*.zip"],

[karlnordstrom]

Check the following in your default or user settings:

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    "folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS"],
    "file_exclude_patterns": ["*.pyc", "*.pyo", "*.exe", "*.dll", "*.obj","*.o", "*.a", "*.lib", "*.so", "*.dylib", "*.ncb", "*.sdf", "*.suo", "*.pdb", "*.idb", ".DS_Store", "*.class", "*.psd", "*.db"],
    // These files will still show up in the side bar, but won't be included in
    // Goto Anything or Find in Files
    "binary_file_patterns": ["*.jpg", "*.jpeg", "*.png", "*.gif", "*.ttf", "*.tga", "*.dds", "*.ico", "*.eot", "*.pdf", "*.swf", "*.jar", "*.zip"],

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried that already. I also tried changing the file extention to .txt, but it still didn't work. The strange thing is that I can see it fine and search using the regular find. It's only when I try "Find in Files..." that the file is identified as a binary.

[karlnordstrom]

Is there a way to increase the debug log level in the console, something that might give a hint as to why it is skipping it as a binary?

[karlnordstrom]

Okay, I found the problem. There were 3 non-printable characters in my very large file. Solution:

1. Search for non-printable characters by using regular expression [^[:print:]]
2. Delete or replace those characters.

Hopefully others can solve this problem more easily now that I have posted it.

I recommend that Sublime provide the option of searching binary files. This could also be helpful for searching for bits of plain text embedded in binaries (which I have also had to do before).

[lgellert]

Find In Files does appear to skip files with special characters (but it does so silently).

I ran into the same problem which I logged in the other sublime support forum here:
http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/1 ... haracters/

[KratosGemini]

I just ran into this type of issue with the same Sublime Text 2 version. So far this is the only issue I have run into that is keeping me from switching to Sublime from Notepad++.