String search functionality

[duncan185674]

Am hoping someone can point me at a plugin for searching that opens a search field, either floating or docked in the toolbar of Notepad++

For large numbers of individual searches in large files, it’s preferable to have immediate access to a field on screen rather than the pop-up, a ‘find all in current document’ search is all that is required, for more complex searches the existing search window is great.

Thanks for your help.

Duncan

[PeterJones]

@duncan185674 ,

Search > Incremental Search puts a search field with “immediate access to a field on screen” – which allows plain-text (not regular-expression) search, but it only has next/previous buttons and cannot do the equivalent of “Find All” (it’s highly similar to the modern “find” in web browsers). I don’t know if that’s what you want, but it’s the closest I can think of in Notepad++ (either built-in or plugin) that isn’t a “pop up window”.

Given that the “pop up window” can be moved to wherever on your screen you want, and can be floating there even when you click back into the main Notepad++ Window (you don’t have to close it to click in Notepad++), then I don’t see what the real difference is between what you have and what you want.

[duncan185674]

@PeterJones many thanks, this particular task involves 400,000 rows of data so the search results window is helpful to group the results, but is not used by the incremental search. My use of npp++ for this task is a bit off-piste as it more a database task, Excel would be my normal choice but it is slow when the range is this large.
Will continue using the existing facilities.
Thanks again
Duncan