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LucianoAssirelli

Find / Replace parameters and lost time

I have had severe problems in development, due to a high synergy between my lack of attention and CVI behavior in search/replace dialogs.

I am talking about the fact that Find/Replace parameters [namely search directories] are stored at REGISTRY level, so that they remain the same across different workspaces.

Having to work with different version of the same software product, I have found myself looking into the wrong sources, or even doing mass updates, due to the fact that different projects have identically named sources and includes, just in different directory trees, and rapidly switching from one workspace

to the next I didn't "mind the step"

My suggestion, thus, is to store find/replace parameters at workspace or project level, so as to avoid the aforementioned inconvenience

4 Comments
pblase
Active Participant

What is needed is a version of the Eclipse "Refactor" capability.

tstanley
Active Participant

I have to second this, as the current behavior is extremely annoying.

LuisG
NI Employee (retired)
Status changed to: Under Consideration
 
gdargaud
Active Participant
I second both the change in the way directories are searched (and stored) and the refactor option, which should be implemented as part of the Source Code Browser.