Find All Occurrences Macro

Michael Vincent

I have a find all macro that works with hardcoded search string (TODO) but is there a way to create a macro that does find all for the current highlighted word?

This works for hardcoded “TODO …”:

        <Macro name="TODO Find All" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
            <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="TODO:|BUG:|FIX:|REFACTOR:|DONE:|INFO:" />
            <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1636" sParam="" />
        </Macro>

This does not work for the current word:

        <Macro name="TODO Find All" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
            <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="$(CURRENT_WORD)" />
            <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1636" sParam="" />
        </Macro>

Cheers.

Alan Kilborn

@Michael-Vincent said in Find All Occurrences Macro:

is there a way to create a macro that does find all for the current highlighted word?

Sadly, no. Even more useful would be something like $(PROMPT) which would put up an input box for a user search term to be supplied.

guy038

Hello, @michael-vincent, @alan-kilborn and All,

Michael, may be I’m missing something obvious !

Why don’t you use your macro, via its shortcut ( search of TODO:|BUG:|FIX:|REFACTOR:|DONE:|INFO: ) to get one instance of the title, presently needed, and then, simply use the Ctrl + F3 or Ctrl + Shift + F3 shortcuts to move around to the next or previous similar title ?

Best Regards,

guy038

Michael Vincent

@guy038 said in Find All Occurrences Macro:

Why don’t you use your macro, via its shortcut ( search of TODO:|BUG:|FIX:|REFACTOR:|DONE:|INFO: ) to get one instance of the title, presently needed, and then, simply use the Ctrl + F3 or Ctrl + Shift + F3 shortcuts to move around to the next or previous similar title ?

Thanks, and not to be rude, but that kind of defeats the purpose. Maybe I should have explained a little better. When I mean “Find all Occurrences” I want the search results window to pop up with all occurrences the same as when I:

highlight a word
press CTRL-F
press “Find All in Current Document”

By making this a macro, I can then add it to the context menu and then a right-click on any word will have a click away, “Find All Occurrences” which will open the clickable search results window.

Hope that better explains, seems it may not be possible though. Shame the $(CURRENT_WORD) variable can be used in the shortcuts.xml file for the <UserDefinedCommands> commands section, but not the <macros> section.

Cheers.,