Thanks. I see now that FifExts was only a stop gap while developing
Find in Files, and have replaced it with a selection. See FifTypes in
the gtkide config.

Help not done yet.


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:22 PM, David Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some thoughts on GTK Find in Files.
>
> I miss the Find in Files Help option.  I often use this in J6 to find
> documentation about specific J topics.
>
> I miss the ability to dynamically associate one or more file suffixes with
> searches. I use J6 FIF to search many directories were I want to be selective
> about the file suffixes searched.  In J, I often want to limit searches to IJS
> files.  In J7 GTK, I find that many of my searches get many unwanted hits in
> .htm, .html, .txt, .ijt files.  In J6, I use J FIF to find MS SDK information 
> in
> .h files, which doesn't work in J7.
>
> I found
>
> FifExts=: (<'') , '.' ,each ;: 'c cfg htm html ijs ijt jproj js k q qproj r s 
> txt'
>
> but, in my opinion, a single, hard coded list of file extensions for FIF is 
> not
> nearly as useful as the J6 usage of named File Type lists of extensions that
> could be dynamically selected for each search.
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