Description Tom Roche 2004-05-11 17:28:05 EDT

The File Search dialog tab (reached via, e.g., C-h>File Search) should
support the Whole Word option. What I mean:

My group is getting old source (many KLOC) running on a new base.
Among the many tasks involved is replacing many Java type names, e.g.
FacesConfig with FacesConfigTypeImpl. It would be nice to be able to
do this via C-h>Java Search (for which I'll do a separate bug), but
that does not support Replace. Instead I use C-h>File Search ... which
does the job, except that, when I attempt to replace

FacesConfig

I also catch

getFacesConfig
setFacesConfigName
FacesConfigHelper

etc. For this usecase I want *only* to replace, e.g., FacesConfig with
FacesConfigTypeImpl. This would be easy and not error-prone if File
Search supported one of the Find/Replace (C-f) Options, "Whole word".

File Search already supports the options "Case sensitive" and "Regular
expression"; I don't believe "Wrap Search" makes sense for File Search
(as it does for Find/Replace), and I'm not sure what the "Incremental"
option does. But Whole Word is very much needed, for both File Search
and Find/Replace!