#134 Have SVE Search identify files outside of project

[StevenAZ]

Requested in 2.0.4

I have had this request come up a number of times, so I thought I would add it here as a feature request.

The request is to "Find an arbitrary string, in any file within the Project, even if it isn't located within the Eclipse Project file tree"

When bringing up the Project Search Dialog (Ctrl+H), the default file search will only search files within the project.

The SVE Search tab will search for and find items anywhere in the design, but can't be used for an arbitrary string (I believe this interrogates the SVE Index). With a project that references code outside the project (UVM libraries for example) it is hard to search for random text within this area.

A work-around exists where the user can add "External Linked Resources", this is still a manual and time consuming process at this point.

As a possible solution: Would it be worth having the SVE Project Wizard automatically detect external resources, and create these links - possibly a checkbox that enables this in the wizard or something along those lines?

[Matthew Ballance]

Hmm... This is an interested idea, and I can see the utility. At the
moment, I'm leaning towards providing a 'Search SV Files' type of
functionality since that would scale as the user modifies the files indexed
by SVEditor. Results display could be a bit interesting, of course ;-)

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:21 PM, StevenAZ stevenaz@users.sf.net wrote:

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A work-around exists where the user can add "External Linked Resources", this is still a manual and time consuming process at this point.
-As a possible solution: Would it be worth having the SVE Project Wizard automatically detect external resources, and create these links?+As a possible solution: Would it be worth having the SVE Project Wizard automatically detect external resources, and create these links - possibly a checkbox that enables this in the wizard or something along those lines?

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• [feature-requests:#134]
  https://sourceforge.net/p/sveditor/feature-requests/134/ Have SVE Search
  identify files outside of project*

Status: open
Group: Next_Release_(example)
Created: Mon Oct 09, 2017 03:21 PM UTC by StevenAZ
Last Updated: Mon Oct 09, 2017 03:21 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Requested in 2.0.4

I have had this request come up a number of times, so I thought I would
add it here as a feature request.

The request is to "Find an arbitrary string, in any file within the
Project, even if it isn't located within the Eclipse Project file tree"

When bringing up the Project Search Dialog (Ctrl+H), the default file
search will only search files within the project.

The SVE Search tab will search for and find items anywhere in the design,
but can't be used for an arbitrary string (I believe this interrogates the
SVE Index). With a project that references code outside the project (UVM
libraries for example) it is hard to search for random text within this
area.

A work-around exists where the user can add "External Linked Resources",
this is still a manual and time consuming process at this point.

As a possible solution: Would it be worth having the SVE Project Wizard
automatically detect external resources, and create these links - possibly
a checkbox that enables this in the wizard or something along those lines?

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