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Fire

Fire is part of the CategoryAplTree project.

Fire stands for FInd and REplace. It's designed to search and replace strings in the workspace.

Preconditions

Preconditions changes with version, there see the project page for details.

Features

Fire's main feature is the "Replace" command which allows you in an easy yet powerful way to replace certain strings in all or selected objects.

Other features are:

You can restrict the search to one or more of these object classes:
- Traditional functions & operators
- Direct functions & operators
- Classes
- Interfaces
- Scripted namespaces
- Variables
You can search...
- the full source code
- the full source code but comments
- comments only
- text only
Negate a search ("all objects that do not contain...")
Search only the hits of the last search

Difference between Dyalog's built-in Search tool and Fire

Fire handles circular references correctly (thanks to PhilLast)
Fire reports a WS FULL only when it is reasonable to do so

Fire's GUI

Main Window

Specifying anything in the "Start looking here" control is supported by autocomplete: this box offers all ordinary namespaces matching the characters in "Start looking here".

After having performed a search one might want to look at the lines carrying the hits. This can be achieved by selecting the "Report hits" menu command from the "Report" menu:

The report offers a context menu on the items of the left:

The "Replace" feature

The Replace feature allows you to change the workspace on a global level:

There are two modes available:

"All in one go" allows you to check all changes first and then either accept or discard them.
"One-by-one" allows you to compare and edit one object after the other.

"All in one go" mode

When you select the "Preview" button you get this:

This allows you to check whether everything is okay or not. Here we see a "compressed" report: it contains only the lines which would change plus the object names plus the headers for all traditional functions and operators in order to make checking local variables easy. You cannot change anything at this stage but you can exclude certain objects from the "Replace" operation by un-ticking the check box.

This is the second and last step:

This allows you to either change and fix all objects or not.

One by one

In one-by-one mode you can check and edit a single object:

In the next step you can either fix the changes or skip this object and carry on with the next one or cancel the whole operation:

Project Page

For bug reports, future enhancements and a full version history see Fire/ProjectPage

How to get Fire

Download the zip file (link see below)
Unzip it
Read HowToInstall.html and follow the instructions

Version Information

Original author:	KaiJaeger
Responsible:	KaiJaeger
Email:	kai@aplteam.com

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-== Fire ==
+= Fire =

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-'''''Fire''''' stands for for FInd and REplace. It's designed to search and replace strings in the workspace.
+{{attachment:fire.png||align="middle"}} '''''Fire''''' stands for FInd and REplace. It's designed to search and replace strings in the workspace.

== Preconditions ==

Preconditions changes with version, there see the [[Fire/ProjectPage|project page]] for details.
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-    * traditional functions & operators
    * direct functions & operators
+    * Traditional functions & operators
    * Direct functions & operators
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- * You can restrict the search by:
    * ignoring code
    * ignoring comments
    * ignoring text (=everything between quotes)
 * Use regular expression in your search string (`⎕S, ⎕R`)
 * Negate a search ("every object that does '''not''' contain...)
+ * You can search...
    * the full source code
    * the full source code but comments
    * comments only
    * text only
 * Negate a search ("all objects that do '''not''' contain...")
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-== Difference between Dyalog's build-in Search tool and Fire ==
+== Difference between Dyalog's built-in Search tool and Fire ==
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+ * Fire reports a WS FULL only when it is reasonable to do so
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-Specifying anything into the "Start looking here" control is supported by autocomplete: this box offers all ordinary namespaces matching the characters in "Start looking here".
+Specifying anything in the "Start looking here" control is supported by autocomplete: this box offers all ordinary namespaces matching the characters in "Start looking here".
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+After having performed a search one might want to look at the lines carrying the hits. This can be achieved by selecting the "Report hits" menu command from the "Report" menu:

{{attachment:HitReport.png}}

The report offers a context menu on the items of the left:

{{attachment:ReportHitsContextMenu.png}}
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-There are two mode available:
+There are two modes available:
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- * In batch mode you can check all changes in one go and then either accept or discard them.
+ * "All in one go" allows you to check all changes first and then either accept or discard them.
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-==== Batch mode ====
+==== "All in one go" mode ====
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-This is the first step of three steps in Batch mode:

This is the first of two steps in Batch mode:
+When you select the "Preview" button you get this:
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-It allows you to check whether everything is okay or not. Here we see a "compressed" report: it contains only the potentially changed lines. The full report would show all lines of all objects involved. You cannot change anything at this stage.
+This allows you to check whether everything is okay or not. Here we see a "compressed" report: it contains only the lines which would change plus the object names plus the headers for all traditional functions and operators in order to make checking local variables easy. You cannot change anything at this stage but you can exclude certain objects from the "Replace" operation by un-ticking the check box.
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-This allows to either fix all changes objects or discard the changes.
+This allows you to either change and fix all objects or not.
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-In the next step you can either fix the changes are skip this object and carry on with the next one or cancel the rest of the Replace operation:
+In the next step you can either fix the changes or skip this object and carry on with the next one or cancel the whole operation:
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+== How to get Fire ==

 * Download the zip file (link see below)
 * Unzip it
 * Read `HowToInstall.html` and follow the instructions
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