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Describes the main program options like the menu items, options, and status bar.

File

• New Window (opens new window for AstroGrep)
• Select Search Path (selects the folder to start the search at)
• Save Results (saves the current results to a file)
• Print Results (prints the current results)
• Exit (closes the application)

Edit

• Select All Files (select all the files listed in the results list)
• Open Selected Files (opens all the selected files in the results list)

View

• Status Messages (view messages marked as status only)
• Exclusion Messages (view messages marked as exclusion only)
• Error Messages (view messages marked as error only)
• All Messages (view all message types)

Tools

• Clear Most Recently Used Lists
  • Search Path (clear only search path list)
  • File Types (clear only file types list)
  • Search Text (clear only search text list)
  • All (clear all lists)
• Save Search Options (manually saves the currently selected search options)
• Options
  • General (general program options)
    • Shortcuts (common Window's options to open AstroGrep)
      • Set right-click option on folders (enables ability to right click any folder and start AstroGrep using that folder as the search path)
      • Desktop (creates/removes a Desktop shortcut to AstroGrep)
      • Start menu (creates/removes a Start Menu shortcut to AstroGrep)
    • Language (user interface display language)
    • Save search options on exit (saves the currently selected search options on application exit)
    • Save messages window position (saves the messagees window location)
    • Show a prompt when a search yields items being excluded or an error occurs (shows a message box with the exclusion or error when it occurrs on the current file, disabling will allow searching to continue)
  • File Encoding
    • Detect file encoding (attempts to detect the correct file encoding when performing a search, disabling it will return AstroGrep to using the standard detection it used before)
    • Add / Edit (adds a new file encoding entry, edit the selected file encoding)
      • File Path (the full path to the file)
      • Encoding Location (the desired file encoding)
    • Delete (deletes the currently selected file encoding)
  • Text Editors (displays the text editors available to open specific file types)
    • Add / Edit (adds a new text editor entry, edit the selected text editor)
      • File Type (the file extension this editor will be associated with, use * for all file types, separate more than 1 iwth |)
      • Text Editor Location (full file location of text editor)
      • Command Line Options (command line options to text editor: %1 = file path, %2 = line number, %3 = column)
      • Use quotes around file (adds quotes around the file path. most editors will need this especially file paths with spaces)
      • Tab Size (the text editor's tab size, use 0 for default)
    • Delete (deletes the currently selected text editor)
  • Results (displays options regarding the result areas of the main window)
    • File List (the results file list at the top right of the main window)
      • Font (specifies the display font for the file list)
    • Results Match (the results matching text colors)
      • Fore Color (the fore color of the results match text)
      • Back Color (the back color of the results match text)
    • Results Window (the results display area at the bottom right of the main window)
      • Fore Color (the fore color of the results text)
      • Back Color (the back color of the results text)
      • Font (specifies the display font for the results text)
      • Remove Leading White Space (removes leading white space for each line displayed)

Help

• View Help (views this help website)
• Regular Expressions (displays the Microsoft website about the regular expression engine used in AstroGrep)
• Check for Updates (checks if running the latest version of AstroGrep and offers to download/install if not)
• About (displays a simple about window for AstroGrep that includes the license and website information)

Status Bar

• Text (first status bar entry that displays the current status of the search, during a search will display the current file being searched)
• Total (displays the total number of times the search text was found in all files)
• File (displays the total number of files that contain the search text)
• Exclusions (displays the total number of files/directories that were excluded, double clicking when the result is greater than zero will display the entire list)
• Error (displays the total number of errors that may have occurred during a search, double clicking when the result is greater than zero will display the entire list)