The first problem seems to work better after restarting the application. $ROOT_DIR was found in every spot it should have been. Does TextMate periodically index the project and then search that index? That would explain why only a few files were found before the restart. If so, how often does the index get refreshed?
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:38:27 -0500, Bryce Thornton brycethornton@gmail.com wrote:
The "Find in Project..." feature has been acting oddly when searching for strings with "special" characters in them. I have the "Regular Expression" box unchecked and the "Ignore Case" box checked.
I have a project with ~100 files in it. About 75 of those contain the variable $ROOT_DIR. When I do a "Find in Project..." and search for $ROOT_DIR I get three results back. I really can't figure out what is special about the three that are returned. Is the "$" causing a problem? I would think that if you are not using regular expressions that all special characters would be automatically escaped.
That's my first problem. Here's the second:
I then tried "*$ROOT_DIR*" with the regular expression box checked just to see what would happen. I realize that this doesn't make much sense as a regular expression. I know next to nothing about them. TextMate proceeded to give me the spinning beach ball for about five minutes. My system became unresponsive. TextMate eventually bombed. I opened TextMate again and repeated the search. Same results. Should there be error checking on the regular expression before it is executed to prevent things like this?
Bryce