[fpc-devel] procedure ... message(); in Linux

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:14:50 +0100
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> On 02/26/2010 04:10 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > '
> > There are several tools in Lazarus for this:
> > - click compile, fpc will give "identifier not found", right click on
> >   the message - popup menu - search identifier. This will search all
> >   units. On first time it may take a minute to scan
> >   the about 1000 units of fpc.
> >   
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Sorry but no :(


 
> Right-Clicking the message gives:
>  - Create local Variable

You need lazarus 0.9.29.

- Search identifier

>  - Clear
>  - Copy selected messages to clipboard
>  - copy all messages to clipboard
>  - copy all and hidden messages to clipboard
>  - Help
>  - Save all messages to file
> 
> All these are very interesting options I was not aware of, but
> unfortunately no search for identifiers.
> 
> > - search / find in files
> >   
> 
> Can search in
>  - Project Files
>  - open files
>  - a given directory.
> 
> (1) and (2) are not helpful,
> 
> (3) Of course I often did search the FPC or LCL sources using standard
> keyword search but here I get all the instances not just the definition
> and of course with these system functions there are several definitions
> that are included in the active sources or not depending on the
> compile-target.

Wait until it finds the first, stop the search. Do find declaration on
the first found.

Mattias