TEXFIND(1)

💖 TEXFIND(1) — the ConTeXt cutie 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about texfind, a manual page from the ConTeXt world, and honestly? she's a vibe.

✨ NAME ✨

texfind — a graphical tool to search for text in TeX input files 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

texfind [ OPTION ... ]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So like. texfind is a graphical, interactive tool that helps you search through TeX input files — including subdirectories, bestie, she goes deep — and it also lets you do search/replace tasks using perl(1) regular expressions. regex girlies rise 💅

It opens two windows:

• One shows off the directory hierarchy and lets you pick which search directories you're feeling today 📁
• The other one is where you type your query and where the results show up ✨

🎀 SEARCHING 🎀

Type a search string into the input box at the top, choose your file extension (tex by default, obviously), and hit ENTER to start the search. The results then show up in the rest of the window. main character behavior fr fr.

Your search string is a perl regular expression (peep perlre(1) for the lore), which gives you sooo much flexibility. The search-and-replace function also uses perl regex syntax — but no pressure, you can also just use simple strings if regex isn't your era today 🫶

😭 Currently there is no way to save changed files. Not me crying about it. Anyway.

💅 MENU 💅

Use the right mouse button to open a menu. Yes, right. Iconic.

• File — Currently only used to exit the program. That's it. That's the whole job. Slay, I guess 💀
• Edit — Copy selections, select or unselect all ✨
• Search — Opens a Find dialog that lets you search further through the displayed results. The Replace option can replace single or all occurrences of a string, but currently it is not possible to change the file. (yes, again. we know. it's giving read-only energy 🙈)
• View — Select specific lines, and adjust word or character wrapping 🎀

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• --font — specify the font used for the menu. Default is courier. 💜
• Other options probably exist. I appreciate input by the program authors, experienced users, or Perl geeks. 👀 like, genuinely, come thru with the info bestie

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• perl(1), perlre(1) 🧚
• ConTeXt wiki ⟨http://www.contextgarden.net⟩ 🌸

💀 BUGS 💀

None known. However, the replace function isn't the most useful one. 💀 okay so she's allegedly flawless but the replace function is lowkey not serving. we said what we said.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

texfind was written for the ConTeXt package by Hans Hagen and Ton Otten, PRAGMA. 👑

This manual page was written by Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and modified by Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mit.edu>. It may be used and modified by others without contacting the authors. 🦋 (generous queens, we love to see it)

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from the texfind manual, December 2006, part of the ConTeXt lineup — go forth and regex responsibly 💖✨