SlickEdit User Guide

Find Symbol Tool Window
SEARCH
The Find Symbol tool window is used to locate symbols in your code. It allows you to search for symbols
by name using either a regular expression, substring, or fast prefix match. The tool window is displayed
when you click Search > Find Symbol or View > Toolbars > Find Symbol, or when you use the
gui_push_tag command.
See Find Symbol Tool Window under the Symbol Browsing topic for more information.
• Search for - Enter the name of the symbol to find. If you select the option Use pattern, you can
enter regular expressions or wildcards in the search field. If you specify
for the Look in field, then you can enter language-specific expressions, such as "this->get" to find
getters in your current class. SlickEdit® displays a progress bar at the top of this tool window while
a search is in progress.
Incremental matches are displayed with each character you type, and the first element in the list is
selected. Press Tab to put focus into the list of matches. Press Enter to navigate to the first match.
Press Down to select the next match. Press Escape to stop the search.
• Symbol List - The list of search results are refreshed as you type the search string. They include
the symbol name, the file that contains it, and the line number. You can sort by any of the three
columns.
The selected match is highlighted and is displayed in the Preview tool window. Single-click or use
the arrow keys to select a match. Double-click or press Enter to navigate to that match.
• Look in - Use this control to specify the scope of the symbol search. The options are:
o - This is the default setting. It uses Context Tagging to intelligently
determine which tag files to search.
o - Select this setting to only search the tags in the current file, including local
variables in the current function scope.
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