Hi, I am an embedded developer and for the last 15 years I have been using Codewright which, if any of you know, Borland stopped supporting about 7 or more years ago.
I have stuck with it simply because I am used to it and can do routine tasks quickly.
I however am now forced to change as it is becoming impossible to install Codewright on a new windows 7 or later PC.
My company uses source insight but I dont want to get comfortable with this as it is pricey and I will not be able to use it at home as well. I stumbled across Codeblocks and so far it looks very nice for what I want.
One thing that I had in Codewright that I woudl really like to have in Codeblocks is a grep in file feature. How it worked was this:
1. With the cursor on the word you want to search for you hit the keyboard shorcut (in my case it was Alt-G)
2.the entire file was then wrapped up with only the lines containing the search in question showing.
3. You could now navigate between those lines
4. Upon pressing esc the file in unwrapped and you are wherever you left your cursor.
I find this a very quick way to navigate amongst a large C file, where for example you are in a function that calls foo() and you want to see what foo() does, you just press alt-G and all occurances of foo appear, you navigate with the keyboard to the line that looks like the definition of foo() and press esc and you are now in function foo(). Lilkewise for checking where a static variable is declared any other way to quickly navigate around using the keyword in question.
I know there are other ways of doing this in codeblocks but so far I have not found one that doesnt require me to reach for the mouse, which I find slows me down a lot.
Thanks in advance
Anthony
