On Di, 2016-02-09 at 18:46 -0500, Anthony Walter wrote: > Ralf, > > A couple of points. > > 1) As I explained there are times when I, and probably other people as > well, need to find the declaration of a function, constant, record, or some > other identifier. We may not know if the function even exists or has been > declared in Pascal, for example when attempting to use specific APIs > dependent on some external library. In those case my approach is often to > search (grep) files under either my lazarus or fpc folder. If there is some > better way please to find these identifiers, which are not in the help > systems, please let me know.
If you are using Lazarus: - put the cursor inside the indentifier - use right mouse key - klick "find declaration of ..." or use key combination ALT-UpArrow When on the console, I don't know. Searching would have to be done with the OS and target cpu in mind, because in many cases that's what switches included files. I did not try yet. There hsa been a thread on the lazaurs list lately, handling the topic of "navigating huge files" or similar. There is a lot of info about what lazarus can do for you regarding search and navigation. -- Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de> _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
