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pbrown
Senior Member
USA
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 Posted - Mar 12 2008 : 11:11:37 AM
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I've been using VAX under VS2008 after some time with SlickEdit.
There is one SlickEdit feature that I've been missing a lot. SlickEdit has a tool window very similar to VAX's "Find Symbol" dialog -- it lets you search for symbols by name incrementally.
One thing it can do, which VAX can't, is directly find symbol references from this tool window. What I have to do under VAX is:
* select the symbol whose references I want to find and go to its definition
* manually navigate to put the cursor in the word containing the symbol definition
* use my shortcut for VAX's Find References
I've found myself wanting to do this roughly 5-10 times a day.
It would be either a "Find Symbol References" dialog that was nearly identical to "Find Symbol" dialog, or to simply add a "References" button to the existing dialog.
Pat
p.s., FWIW, I really like VAX's Find Symbol feature -- it's much faster than SlickEdit's when using my project with a huge number of symbols. SlickEdit's "Find References" does feel quite a bit faster than VAX's. VAX easily beats the default Visual Studio "Find References", though. |
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"Find Symbol" References feature
