I've never had good results when searching with regular expressions in uVision, so I started using grepWin many years ago.
My problem is that since Windows 7 and the changes with how double-clicking files with file-type associations works (or rather doesn't), every time I double click on a search result in grepWin it opens a new instance of uVision instead of opening the file in a new editor window.
Does anyone know how to fix this? My goal is that when double-clicking on a search result in grepWin that line of code shows up in a new window of uVision (rather than starting a new instance of uVision).
Thanks, Dave
Per, I'm not sure. However, after temporarily giving up on this topic I entered my regular expression search in the uVision4 find-in-files box and lo and behold... it worked properly. That was quite a surprise. Perhaps that functionality works better now than all the times I've tried it in the past. I'm not giving up on finding the answer to my original post, as I really like grepWin (especially the feature where you can incrementally build up search/replace expressions with test data to try it out on before committing to executing it).
Prior versions of Windows made solving these kinds of problems easier, I think, since you could edit so much more relative to file associations and commands. Windows 7 seems to have taken a step backwards in this regard, as there doesn't seem to be any (easy?) way to do anything besides associate a file extension with an application... you can't add/edit/remove commands associated with these file extension associations :-(
Dave