PHP editor with multi-line search feature?

Gary_King

I'm looking for a(n excellent) PHP editor that also has multi-line search feature, so I can search for more than one line instead of only one line (this feature is a must!)

Any suggestions? 🙂 Also of course the editor has to be excellent overall as well 🙂

jazz_snob

OK, I dig jEdit but have never done a search like your asking for, so I just tried it. CTRL-F brings up the search dialog, i typed in 'function' as the search word and choose 'search all buffers' and it poped up a dialog showing each occurence of 'function' in each buffer WAY COOL 🆒 , including line # on which it occurs and you just click on the one you want and your whisked away to that line in that buffer!

I use jEdit for everything: PHP, HTML, java, XML, etc... ( specifically I use jEdit version 4.1; I'd tried a later version but didn't like the way they moved some stuff around ).

Try jEdit. Its free. Its x-platform. Its low-carb.

-Tom.

Shrike

I know Textpad can do it. Any editor with a decent regexp parser will be able to do it.

planetsim

And you couldnt find one in this http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10209798

Gary_King

Originally posted by planetsim
And you couldnt find one in this http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10209798

too long a thread

Also, jEdit does not have a multiple line search. You can only search for one line

planetsim

The reason its long is to stop these type of threads. Maybe there should be a search within the thread 😉

jazz_snob

Originally posted by Gary W
too long a thread

Also, jEdit does not have a multiple line search. You can only search for one line

I must have misunderstood your question...this isn't multiple line search? Or did you mean search for a multiple of key words at once?

Gary_King

Originally posted by jazz_snob
I must have misunderstood your question...this isn't multiple line search? Or did you mean search for a multiple of key words at once?

I mean, being able to search for something like the following:

<?php

print 'I want to search ALL of these lines in one search';

exit;

?>

in the open document

Weedpacket

I use a now-extinct program that allows C escape sequences to specify newline characters. HTML-Kit can do that as well.

Gary_King

I want it to work so that I can simply copy and paste multiple lines from a location and paste it into a search box in the editor.

pohopo

i am not sure why the feature is a must. i used to use homesite where you could do this, but i rarely ever had to use this feature.

Weedpacket

That extinct program I had could be used in this way; I scarcely ever did, however (for one thing, if I've already selected it, I already know where it is).

You can see from the page - a closed source project that the developer had to abandon.

Gary_King

I'm sorry but I won't be using outdated/unsupported software, I don't feel right since it's not up-to-date 🙁

The feature I'm talking about, can be found in Dreamweaver MX 2004, but that I don't like Dreamweaver so I'm looking for alternatives.

goldbug

Well, unless you're too lazy to use the functionality, many popular editors feature the ability to search using regular expressions--with which you can specify newlines (as well as more advanced matching parameters that a simple newline-ignoring simple text search would ignore)

I personally use Jedit (mentioned above), and sometimes Quanta. UltraEdit as well has a very decent regex search ability.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Gary W
I don't feel right since it's not up-to-date 🙁

ROFL! That's got to be one of the best arguments against a text editor I've ever heard!

ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR!
And if you don't get that joke, go over to the thread you've already been directed to, and follow up on what people have been saying about text editors. Maybe continue the discussion there. Sheesh; is that so difficult?