[RESOLVED] Search - Ignore Comments
At the moment, when I do Ctrl-F to find in a file, the options are:
Case Sensitive
Match whole words only
Regex
Can we have another option that says:
Ignore results in comments
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No, the search is not context aware.
You either have to use the "regular", "Find Usages" and its variants or use the (not-so-intuitive) structural search.
I was helped out by a collegue with a nice piece of regex
^((?!.(//|///)).key.*)$
where "key" is the search term
JSLint highlighted all of my uses of single-quotes to delimit strings, but JSLint is comment-aware. So when I tried to use WebStorm to repair the problems found by JSLint I was surprised WebStorm didn't discriminate between comments and code. I used this regex to change single to double quotes:
But a single, single quote in a comment (e.g., the word that's) caused each subsequent match to END with the beginning of a string in code and BEGIN with the end of a string.
The workaround I finally arrived at was to use WebStorm replace's "In Selection" checkbox and work a section at a time, avoiding quotes containing comments. Still, it seems as though if JSLint can discriminate, WebStorm should be able to.