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frithjofh:
Hello everybody,

I just realized, that the normal search function (strg+F) does not work correctly when invoked by the context menu when the item to be searched for is in a commentary. It just does nothing. Searching the item with ctrl+F does work as expected.

OS SuSE Linux 11.3 x86_64
version C::B: svn 7141 self compiled

Best regards

frithjofh

Jenna:
Which context menu do you use to invoke the search ?

frithjofh:
the right mouse button context menu. there the third command from above: "find references of:"

Jenna:
This is a totally different search command, than Strg+F.
It searches for references of the symbol under the caret (e.g. a vraiable) in the sources, it's not a literal search.

frithjofh:
That may be so, but it does not change the fact about the misbehaving: invoking the search by right-click on a term in a comment does nothing whereas doing the same on a non comment term does a search as expected ...
That a term inside a comment falls out of the category of source symbol does not seem quite right. Many times one just comments-out a piece of code to test an alternative, the commented line still "stays" code in that sense ...

Well, just my opinion, and I'm definitively not a pro ...

Maybe the difference between code searching and literal searching just does not come out clearly enough through the names of the commands or its locations ...

Regards

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