How to quickly search and find strings in source code?

[Ceres]

Hello!

I am trying to locate file(s) in the source code where names are defined, e.g. "Pepin the Hunchback". I cloned the master to my local drive and used the Windows app TextCrawler but could not find this string, and besides I think that there must be a more straightforward way for this seemingly simple task.

I remember that Stan(?) once posted a link that showed code but told that it was not the official GitHub or GitLab browser but some unofficial tool but great to use, as far as I remember correctly. Maybe that would help me? (if I knew what it was)

Thanks for sharing your ideas and helping me. 

[Yekaterina]

I would install Atom editor, then open the project folder. Press ctrl + F then set search filter to whole project and match all cases.

There are also search options in toolbar.

[Ceres]

Thank you very much!  I have not used Atom, but your help inspired me to try the same in Notepad++ editor, and it works nicely

[alre]

you can also make a search on github for 0ad repository.

[Ceres]

Ups, I have not thought about GitHub for the 0 A.D. base game.  Yes, that is easy to use indeed - thank you!

[GrimPixel]

Atom is going to be discontinued. You can use VSCodium instead.

https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/

[Ceres]

Thank you! I have very good experience now with Notepad++ and searching directly in GitHub works, too. With Notepad++, I can load the whole project source code which I forked from GitHub and checked out to my laptop, apply changes, and write them back to my fork (with TortoiseSVN - yes, SVN). 

[Ceres]

Searching in VSCodium is really fast - much faster than the search function of Notepad++ (which does not use indices or caches for searching). I will stick to VSCodium (the GitHub version stripped of MS telemetry stuff).

Edited October 30, 2022 by Ceres

[Grapjas]

@CeresI personally open a folder with VScode (drag & drop), and then when you use the search tab it will look for matches in all those files contained in the folder. It's also easier to navigate files and folder trees that way imo.