Find & Grep

Eclipse has an excellent Find & Grep utility. This feature by itself is almost worth switching to SVEditor for when working on large code bases that you are not familiar with.

Searching for a string in the entire design

Searching for any text in any file in the entire design is trivial. In Eclipse Mar (4.5.2) the time to search through > 5000 files is less than 30 seconds!!!

1. Open the dialog - Ctrl+H
2. Enter the text to search for in the - Containing Text
3. Select Case sensitivity, regular expressions as appropriate
4. Enter the File name patterns to search all verilog files *.sv, *.v
5. Scope
   1. Workspace - Search through all files in the workspace
   2. Selected Resources - Will search through the item currently selected (even something in the project explorer)
   3. Enclosing Projects - Search for files in the current project
   4. Working set - selected sets
6. Hit the Search button to search for matches

Customize

The customize button allows you to limit the number of search dialog boxes visible when opening up the search dialog. This is worth doing.

Replace

This function allows you to do sophisticated search & replace functions across all files in the design. When you hit this Replace you will be prompted to enter the replacement text. At this a preview dialog box will appear allowing you to decide whether you want to make the changes on a file-by-file basis. The example below shows logic being replaced by wire.