Compiler Beta - Tabs and Advanced Find in Files!

Posted 30 Aug 2011, by Simon Ford

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We've put up a couple of new features on the beta site for anyone interested in some early access testing:

Editor Tabs - for switching between open files you are editing
Advanced Find - to search across all files within your project

Editor Tabs

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The file editor now supports tabs, making it simple to switch between files you are currently editing. Hopefully pretty self explanatory.

Advanced Find

The find functionality has now been extended, so you can search beyond the current file.

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Having enabled the Find bar (Toolbar icon, or Ctrl-F), there is now an "Advanced" button. Hit that and you'll get the Advanced Find in Files window:

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This enables you to search across multiple files and filetypes; for example, across your whole program. When you search, the reuslts will appear as a list in the compiler output window where you can jump to any of them with a click:

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To try it out, just enable http://mbed.org/betamode/. I'm sure there are still a few bugs to iron out, so please fire any reports at the forum as per normal.

Hopefully some useful features to enhance your coding pleasure...

6 comments on Compiler Beta - Tabs and Advanced Find in Files!:

ceri clatworthy

# 30 Aug 2011

Tabs :)

Ceri.

Nelson Neves

# 30 Aug 2011

Wow, first the source control stuff, now tabs and advanced replace, this now looks like a real Desktop IDE. Thanks, TABS will sure be pretty useful. Keep up the good work!

Jason Engelman

# 31 Aug 2011

Looks good!, any chance we could get some compiler options like -cpp option on projects. This would help mixing cpp & .c projects as some things like void* ptrs, *(AStructPtr*)struct->etc.data + i , reserved keywords like Object etc are a pain to deal with.