Searching

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Through menu Edit the Find menu can be opened. The same can be done through the keyboard shortcut Control-F.

A hit-list (list of verses containing the searched item) in the Referencess Area is created.

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Basic Find

Menu / Edit / Find (Ctrl+F) searches exacty (except case sensitive) for the sequence of characters entered into the Search for box, punctuation marks and spaces included. Case sensitive can be switched on (off). Example: Searching for ue. t shows all the references (in the Reference Area) with the words: true. The.

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Advanced Find

Menu / Edit / Find (Control+F, Control+F) allows more complex searches than the Basic Find:

  • Search box to enter text
  • Case sensitive: on (off)
  • Interprete * and ? as wildcards: on (off)
  • Match start of word: on (off)
  • Match end of word: on (off)
  • Select books: some books (all), for details see Select books dialog
  • Which area of the text to search in.

There are two wildcards. The ? and the *. The ? means "any single character". If one were to search for "p?t", and ticks the option for wildcards, then the search will hit results like "pit" and "put". The * works similar, but means "zero or more characters".

Searches can be done in certain areas of the text. When searching in the raw USFM text, then one searches in the text as it is stored, e.g. one can search for markers too, like \add. When searching in all the text except the USFM codes, one searches in the text as it will appear on the paper when printed. This means that searching for markers is not possible, as these will be hidden on the paper. When searching in certain categories, one can limit searches to, let's say, only the introductions, or only the verse text, or only headings and identifiers, and so forth.

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Find in BibleTime

When BibleTime is running, one can also search for text in BibleTime, and the references will then be loaded straight into Bibledit.

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Loading results

Once a search has been done, one can decide how they interact with what is already in the references area.

  • The search results can simply be loaded in the references area, and so replaces anything that is already there.
  • Or the search results can be added to the references already there.
  • Or they can be removed from the references already loaded.
  • Sharing the search results with what is already in the references area means that only the references that are the same will be kept in the references area, and the other ones will be discarded.
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