search function

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Hello,
I am looking for a search function, to find the line, where I used my variable. It isnt always easy to find things in a 1000 line code... .
Anybody know such a feature?

Tanks :smiley:

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The Arduino IDE has a 'find' option under 'Edit' . If this does not do what you want then pretty much every editor I have ever used has had a 'find' or equivalent. Decent IDE have in built 'find'.

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I use the Geany editor for all my Arduino (and other) programming. Highlight a piece of text and Shift-Ctrl-M highlights every other example. And there is also a regular "find" facility.

...R

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And on macOS I use, and would recommend, TextWrangler from BareBones Software.

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My favourite alternative is Notepad++. It automatically highlights every instance of whatever word you have selected, no extra settings or key presses required.

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saximus:
My favourite alternative is Notepad++. It automatically highlights every instance of whatever word you have selected, no extra settings or key presses required.

Agree...plus it's free:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.2.2.html

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Any editor will do the job :wink: But if you use single character variable names you might have a problem, specifically if they are global. The variable name 'i' is specifically nice because it often occurs many times in code (while, pinMode, digitalRead, digitalWrite and so on) 8)

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Even the humble Arduino IDE has some tricks up its sleeve.

Double click on the name of a variable to highlight it, then Ctrl + E, Ctrl + F, Return will find the next instance of the text as will subsequent Returns.