Maybe Tomasz can put this on the TODO list, But it would be nice to be able to set a directory and have fasmw search all files in that directory and/or sub-directories for a specific text item. Visual Studio has this feature and it comes in handy on occasion.

I think I will request a more useful feature. What you are suggesting is something that Windows/Linux/others have in their OS i.e. you can find/grep what you are looking for.

What would work for FASM (this is what I think), is a kind of "project search" which searches through the assembled document, which includes all the include-directive introduced files and the main file itself.

Why would one search for a text item is usually duo to "lost" include-file, I mean you don't know from which include-file to search from.

What do you guys think?

Just searching for the included files will be problematic. See here for an example of why finding all the includes is not necessarily easy. You would need to include a prominent warning to say that the search may fail to find anything even though it does exist somewhere.

In case, when your source is correct (meaning that it is possible to assemble it), you could use the contents of the "fas" file to find out where symbols get defined, etc.

I really should finish that plugin support for fasmw. I started it and left in unfinished state already quite a few years ago...

Maybe I should clarify a bit. I'd like to search within a directory (and subdirectories), and in each file in that directory, for the specified word or phrase. An example would be the windows sdk include directory (or the fasmw include directory). I would mainly use it to search for a symbol or macro already defined.



That sound's like a good idea, this would allow other's to help in the development of fasm. If anyone comes up with anything useful, you can make it the main part of the fasm package.

I have been waiting for a plugin feature for a while now, i really hope its something that will be strongly considered.

When talking about search, I had a pretty simple proposal some time ago:
In S&R, report the amount of changes done. Of course, also the search-only could have a "count" feature.

About plugins or search in files, the idea probably isn't bad but considering that FASMD and FASMW are pretty equivalent now, this fact should be kept during future enhancements.