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Bug 35555

Summary: Extend the Find in Files concept with Replace
Product: utilities Reporter: mvinar <mvinar>
Component: SearchAssignee: issues@utilities <issues>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P2    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 35735    

Description mvinar 2003-08-21 10:39:44 UTC 
User problem:
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User need:
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The user needs to be able to do text replace
operations over multiple files within the IDE.

Product requirement:
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Extend the Find in Files concept with Replace.
Comment 1 _ tboudreau 2003-08-24 00:38:04 UTC 
Difficulty: 5 - this is non-trivial, since unless designed
with care, it will be easy to make irreversible changes in
large numbers of files

Hack factor: 2 - may be more or less

Issues:
 - Cases to handle such as:
   - File is open in editor
 - Can we avoid creating reams of DataObjects to do this?
 - What about unknown file types?  If we don't do this via
   DataObjects, this becomes an issue.  Maybe I'm worrying
   too much.
Comment 2 pbw 2004-10-14 07:06:54 UTC 
This actually sounds like something that might be better implemented
as part of re-factoring.  Eclipse allow for text instances of changed
method names, etc, to be changed in files with names matching given
patterns.
Comment 3 Marian Petras 2004-10-18 15:46:26 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 10021 ***