Thank you all for the quick an helpful suggestions. It will take me a bit to explore them all.
Only using a virtual PC for AmiBroker, and using a Mac for everything else, I was unfamiliar with all the possible good solutions suggested, and most are free. I looked at the websites of each suggested product. Notepad++ is interesting as an open source editor with many features I have seen requested for the Formula editor. It would be interesting to see something like this directly adapted for use with AFL (including all the syntax coloring). Perhaps this has already been done? It seems that it would be far easier to support this editor as a standard for advanced users than beg TJ to spend valuable development time adding the same features into the Formula editor. Since it is open source, perhaps TJ or another C++ wizard could just add the specific Formula editor stuff into a custom version of Notepad++ (or visa versa for TJ). Herman you have asked for TJ to open up the formula editor for add- ons, and add features like syntax folding, etc. This would be the ultimate for add-ons with open source. Ok, I am off to download and try things out for a while. Suggested programs: Ultraedit Textcrawler TexRep Notepad ++ Regular Expressions EditPad Pro Custom JScript Thanks again, Dennis On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: > Hello, > > I have my system broken into about 30 include files now. Now I must > get around a problem that is one of the reasons I resisted using many > includes for so long --editing the same content across all includes. > > Let's say that I decide I want to change the name of a variable to a > more descriptive name -- like RibSel to RibSelMenuOpen. If everything > is one file, I just search and replace every one. However, if the > locations are spread across some unknown number of my include files, > how do I manage to do this operation simply? > > The task is made harder because the formula editor search dialog data > does not transfer to another open formula editor file. Currently I am > finding myself opening each include and pasting the search name over > again, and typing in the changed name again. Very time consuming > considering how many variables I change the names of after I get > something working. I make something work with short names then clean > up the final code with self documenting names when I can think of a > better name. > > How do others solve this problem? > > Best regards, > Dennis
