WIth Find in Files I’m ready to adopt Sublime Text X as my full-time editor of choice. I’m really excited!
Here’s some notes I took while playing around. Let me know if it’s more convenient for you to have a huge chunk like this or if you prefer the sublimator style of a single post every time I find something of note:
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[li]Is there a way to remove one folder from a project?[/li]
[li]I’m excited about the new Preferences menu! Would it be possible to have its options listed as a submenu under Sublime Text X>Preferences? (As an example of what I’m talking about, Adobe Photoshop does this with its preferences).[/li]
[li]If I drag a sidebar item and I let go when my mouse is outside the window, the item gets stuck until I click back in the window.[/li]
[li]I really like the detailed status message when you save a broken keymap file. However, would it be possible to just open the console to show the status message when this happens rather than having the modal dialog?[/li]
[li]When I open the save dialog and press command-d to go to the desktop, the “Where” popup doesn’t change to say “Desktop” (it keeps listing whatever the default save folder was) but the file does get saved to the desktop. I’m not sure what’s going on.[/li]
[li]I am a huge fan of the dedicated find results buffer! I have a couple requests here, though. Some of these have been mentioned by others already, but I thought I’d just throw them here anyway:
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[]If I save the find results buffer, further searches will open a new buffer. Is this by design?[/li]
[li]I would really like to be able to edit, save, etc. the buffer while still having it receive new search results and still allowing me to double-click lines to go to their destination. This way I can easily pare down the results to only what I’m interested in and then keep track of those results.[/li]
[li]Like sublimator mentioned, it’d be nice if searching would scroll the find results buffer to the location of the new find results.[/li]
[li]I’d like it if the line “Searching 111 files” said what the find string was (maybe something like "Searched for “asdf” in (-.txt,-Makefile)" – I’m not sure if the search locations are important to list, though).[/li]
[li]It’d also be nice if the “0 matches across 0 files” line were at the top of the find results – maybe you could just update the buffer as you find results? or put the line up at the top once the search is over.[/li]
[li]I originally didn’t notice the : to the right of the line number for each find result. When I noticed it I didn’t think it was obvious enough, but it’s growing on me. I guess this bullet point isn’t really saying anything substantial, but it’s written already so there you go.[/li]
[li]I really like how next_result and prev_result work with Find in Files.[/li][/ul][/*:m]
[li]I really like the new implementation of the minimap highlight box. It’s very classy.[/li]
[li]Could the default and user preference files have different names? When they’re listed in sidebar it’s impossible to tell which one is the user settings without opening it.[/li]
[li]I can select multiple buffers in the sidebar, but I don’t seem to be able to do anything with my selection; i.e., I can’t close them all with commmand-w or by clicking the x, I can’t drag them all to a different group, etc.[/li]
[li]I like how the new project system keeps track of unsaved changes![/li]
[li]You mentioned in your release notes that “Exclude patterns can be configured for opened folders” – is this referring to exclusions in the Find in Files function, or is it referring to file exclusions in a project? If it’s the latter, I can’t figure out how to do it.[/li]
[li]When moving to the beginning of line with multiple selections, would it be possible to have either all or none of them move to hard bol? I had some selections and I was trying to get to the beginning of the line, and some selections were at the hard bol and some were at the soft bol and pressing command-left just toggled each line.[/li]
[li]Command-d sometimes doesn’t work right: if I have a selection, it will expand to word instead of find_under_expanding. Sometime it does work, though; I can’t figure it out.[/li][/list:u]