Java™ Application Development on Linux - Dator

244Chapter 10Integrated <strong>Development</strong> EnvironmentsFigure 10.4 NetBeans’ Edit screen toolbarFigure 10.5 NetBeans’ Find dialogThe toolbar search only works within a single source file. If you want tosearch across multiple files, go back to the Explorer window and right-click onthe folder containing the files you wish to search. There is a Find . . . commandin the pop-up menu. That brings up a dialog box (Figure 10.5) that hasmultiple tabs for quite extensive filtering of your search. In its simplest use, justtype in the text you want to find, and press Enter.A list of the files which contain the text will appear in a different window,citing filename and linenumber for each file. There you can double-click onany citation to bring up that file in the edit window, at that location.If you heeded our admonition to learn vi, you’ll be glad to know thatNetBeans can handle the fact that the source files can be modified externallyfrom the IDE. Go ahead and edit any of your source files, even while the IDE