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Make Visual Studio's Find in Files default to the project directory?

I have many different branches/checkouts of the same project code on my development machine. Each one is virtually the same except for various maintenance bug fixes or improvements I'm working on within each project. The problem comes when I use…
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Visual Studio - Find in Files except in files with type of

Visual Studio's Find in Files has the option "Look at these file types:" which allows you to specify specific file types (eg. all .aspx files). It is possible to specify file types NOT to look at? I need something like "search in all files and do…
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Bytes position of a FindInFiles search in vb.Net

I am unable to set the position in bytes using FindInFiles search. Wouldn't it be conceivable to think that one could access the search position when the searched word is found? Below is my search code through all the files in a directory in my…
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Query gmail attachment content

Is there a way to read the content of the attachment from gmail without the need to save it first? I want to query some e-mails that I receive with logistic tax information, that I need to query than by company and truck. Nowaday I have a manual…
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Emeditor pro Find in files to find multiple files

I am looking for a way to search many files of one file type for a large number of strings. Example: Search Doc1.txt, Doc2.txt, Doc3.txt on Drive C: Search For aaa.rtf, aba.rtf, ccc.rtf The standard find in files looks for one single string in many…
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Visual Studio "Find in Files" unable to find matches in solution

I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 Version 16.5.0. When I use ctrl + shift + f and try to search for a common string in my solution, the search results keep coming up empty (even with match case and match whole word off): But if I…
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lua match everything after a tag in a string

The string is like this: TEMPLATES="!$TEMPLATE templatename manufacturer model mode\n$TEMPLATE MacQuantum Wash Basic\n$$MANUFACTURER Martin\n$$MODELNAME Mac Quantum Wash\n$$MODENAME Basic\n" My way to get strings without tags is: local…
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Apply multiple regular expressions to Visual Studio's "Find in Files"

I need to find certain lines in my code base and display the results in Visual Studio's "Find Results". That's what the "Find in Files" search window is here for, right? However, the catch is that I need to apply multiple regular expressions to…
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How can I make search in files to be triggered on keyboard input in Visual Studio Code?

Search in files needs "enter" to be pressed. How can I make it scan files after every single keyboard input ?? Also how to prioritize code files, instead of configuration files like .json, that unfortunately pops first every single time in search…
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Is the method filesystem.findinfiles available to ".xlsx" file ?

I am intending to write a sub to loop through a directory to find is there any file (xls, xlsx, txt, etc.) which contains the input sting。 I used filesystem.findinfiles method, but it seems that xlsx files couldn't be read with this method. ( I have…
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Identifying list of xlsx files from the cloud (google drive)

I am trying to create a loop where I can perform the same set of functions for a bunch of files. However, the files are stored on a shared folder in google drive (xlsx files) and I can't seem to get the code to "find them". I am working on a Mac (if…
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Changing Specific attribute

I want to change a specific attribute in the each file (there are total 350 of them) with same code. For example, Folder 'Target' there are 350 files that have same attribute that I would like to change. in file A,
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Visual Studio 2013 include logical or in "find in files" (updated for VS2017)

How does one accomplish the following: In Visual Studio 2013 include logical or in "find in files" So I could do a search such as http OR web but the above syntax doesn't work.
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Java, How can I find a pattern in a File and read the whole line?

I want to find a special charsequence in a file and I want to read the whole line where the occurrences are. The following code just checks the first line and fetchess this ( the first ) line. How can I fix it? Scanner scanner = new…
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Geany "Find in files" breaks when brackets included in search string

I have Geany 1.27 installed in my Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr). But I also have Windows 7 OS with Geany 1.28 installed. In both these versions of Geany, when I try to find a string into a multiple files or folder with file-type filter of "phtml" or…
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