View | Common Tasks
This command shows/hides the Common Tasks panel. This panel displays all major FAR commands.
View | Find & Replace Panel
Show / Hide the basic Find and replace control panel.
Enter Text to Find.
Uncheck the Replace checkbox to find only.
Click Start to begin searching all files in the file list.
Click Stop or press Esc to stop searching.Prompt Mode: Preview each match found. Ask replace Y/N etc.
Ignore Case: When checked, a search for say "Boy" will match "BOY" and "boY".
Ignore CR LF: Html often breaks lines at spaces. Check this option to ignore line breaks.
Ignore Multiple Spaces: Html code containing multiple spaces can be difficult to find. Check this option to treat all multiple spaces as a single space.
Search All Files: Uncheck this option to search only the selected files.
General Search Tips:
- Press ESC at anytime to terminate a find and replace run.
- Far Find & Replace can also be operated in batch mode from the command line.
- MS FrontPage HTML tab does not always show you the true document source code. So when you are swearing at FAR remember you may have copied FP text not the true source.
- Normally for HTML file searching we leave all option checkboxes (right) checked. The exception is if we are searching for CR & LF characters (see below), then "Ignore CR LF" and "Ignore Multiple Spaces"should be Unchecked.
- Speed Up Tip: If you have thousands of files to process, use Windows Find to get a short list then drop the short list onto FAR. Windows Find is exceptionally fast (Although don't trust Win XP search).
- Click the icon on the Find and Replace panel (main window) to access the Advanced Search dialog.
- If the special character string "$F$" is found in a find or replace entry field then during Find and Replace $F$ will be replaced by the name of the current file being searched (filename only, no directory).
- If the special character string "$#nn$" is found in a find or replace entry field then during Find and Replace $#nnn$ will be replaced by the char representation of nnn.
EG. Find or Replace a CR char by using the string "$#13$"
EG. Find or Replace a LF char by using the string "$#10$"
EG. Find or Replace a Tab char by using the string "$#09$"- FAR supports the wild character "?". This will match any character. To search for a real "?" in a string prefix with the "^" char. EG. Find: "abc?" will match "abcd" of file string "abcd abc?", while Find: "abc^?" will match the "abc?" part.
See also: Advanced Find & Replace (Commands menu)
View | Drop File Filter Panel
Allows you to quickly view what the current drop file filters are. Click the panel titles or the icon to open the Drop File Filter dialog and modify the filters.
View | File Utilities Toolbar
Show the toolbar containing the File Utility commands.
View | Authoring Toolbar
Show the toolbar containing the Authoring commands.
View | Both Toolbars
Show both the File Utilities and Authoring toolbars together, and hide the page tabs.
View | Toolbar
Hide / Show the tool bar.
View | Toolbar Text
Hide / Show the tool bar text.
View | Show Full Directory Path
FAR file list "In Folder" column display mode. When checked the file list displays the fully qualified directory path. When unchecked the file list displays the relative path (relative to the base directory displayed in the title bar, screen top).
View | Allow Windows Themes
When running under Windows XP, Vista or greater you can enable/disable the Windows themed look in FAR. This setting has no effect if running in WinXP or Vista in Classic mode. On early versions of Windows this setting is disabled.