Try the little '-' in a circle on the right by each search location.
— Bruce
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> On Feb 9, 2026, at 11:28 AM, Tim A <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That prompted me to take a look at Search choices on my computer and found
> the "Search In" box filled with file names from just doing other things in
> the past with BBEdit. I don't see any way to clear out/delete these.
> Is there a way to delete these?
>
> On Sunday, February 8, 2026 at 7:06:03 AM UTC-8 Rich Siegel wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2026, at 8:35, Bill Kochman wrote:
>
> > Hello Rich and company,
> >
> > Well, I suppose I should already know how to do this after all of these
> > years using BBEdit, but I don’t. I googled for the right answer to my
> > question, but apparently, the info Google provides is outdated in some way.
> > I couldn’t find an answer in the grep cheat sheet either.
> >
> > My question is very simple.
> >
> > I have a folder containing 741 BBEdit files. The vast majority of the files
> > have the following three hashtags in a vertical row:
> >
> > #Scriptures\n#BibleStudy\n#BibleVerses\n
> >
> > However, there are a small number of files which do NOT have those
> > hashtags. So exactly how do I find and list just those files, and NOT all
> > of the other files which DO contain those hashtags?
> >
> > Using the above line, please show me exactly what I should put in the
> > multi-file search window, and what options need to be enabled.
>
> The "Exclude Matches" option in the Multi-File Search window is provided for
> this purpose.
>
> R.
>
>
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>
> Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me.
>
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