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This script uses/imports a modified version of great customMenuItem of @jonB (see this topic )
It is modified to allow insertion of a new menu option where we want, not only at end (append) of the popup menu.

For instance, Find before Help

modified customMenuItem

The new script find_in_files_new_menu.py will search a text in all your scripts via a new Findoption in the popup menu, without passing via the Help menu. In this case, we can't use the process of the help, thus the script shows its TableView of sources and a selected source is displayed in a @mikael 's WKWebView.

If you tap Find without selecting a text first, the program will ask you which text to search. This allows you to search a text non present in your edited file.

source is here find_in_files_new_menu.py.

Don't forget that this script has to be executed only once by Pythonista (re)start

awesome! good job 🙃

If somebody knows how to change the topic title. I only want to remove the first word "Topic" 😢

@cvp just hit the ⋮ and then Edit. tthe top you should be ableto select topic an edit it

@stephen Thanks. Shame on my memory, I'm sure I had already done it.

@cvp 😉 happends to the greatet of us

@stephen Remember me to pay you a beer when I meet you 😂

@cvp, remind that I buy you two beers.

@mikael I accept always a beer, but, in this case, why?

round for everyone 🕺🏻

@stephen I‘d be down😂 And all of you would deserve one for answering all of my countless (and sometimes maybe a bit stupid) questions

@Drizzel 🤓 never a Stupid Question you should question everything!

anyone can be smart.. but intellect is what carves the wheel ☺️😉

When the scan of sources takes a long time, for several reasons like
- you have a lot of scripts with a lot of lines
- your iDevice is old and slow, like my iPad mini 4
- a lot of scripts contain the searched text,
you see the popup menu during a long time before the TableView of sources becomes visible.

As adviced by @JonB, I've modified the script to process the scan in a background thread while the TableView is already visible. Names of all files containing the searched text are appended to the TableView one by one.

Even if the scan is not yet finished, you can already select one to display it, while the scan continues in background.
When you come back, you would see the list eventually I ncreased.
A clock in the title bar of the TableView is visible while the scan is active, and is removed when the scan is finished.
If you close the TableView, the background thread is forced to terminate even if the scan was not yet finished.

New version is here

I'have à bug when I come back in Pythonista from another app.
If I try to find, the my_thread class does not exist any more.
Sorry, I'l try to correct that

Edit: Corrected, I hope, thanks to retain_global but problem was not reproductible on demand, thus ....🤞

@cvp said:

• your iDevice is old and slow, like my iPad mini 4

Love that line😂
I use an iPad mini 2 base model (16gb), and it’s sloooow. I’m currently saving for a new one... and since I’m still in school (17yo) that might take some time.

So an iPad mini 4 isn’t really a reasonable upgrade? Because that was what I was aiming for

@Drizzel @cvp
my iPad Air2 (iPad 4/5 equivolent i believe) isnt slow but i am alwys at 14/16GB used lol no mater what i delete or uninstal

@Drizzel said:

So an iPad mini 4 isn’t really a reasonable upgrade

Sure it is. I have always been happy with it but a newer is quicker 😀
It is a question of price/advantage.

Don't forget I'm retired then I pass perhaps too much time with this machine.
Assume I spend 6 hours per day and that I buy a new device 2 x quicker, I will only spend 3 hours per day 😂

@cvp said:

Assume I spend 6 hours per day and that I buy a new device 2 x quicker, I will only spend 3 hours per day 😂

😅 Im Writing/art on mine probably close to 12-16 hours a day

@stephen I use it more than 6 hours, but 🤫, my wife doesn't know it 😇
It was only a joke on the number hours = f(1/cpu speed)

@cvp 😅😂😅 legiondary

@stephen said:

😅😂😅 legiondary

True :)
@cvp Absolutely ove the calculation with the cpu speed, I wish it was like that.
I guess I'll see what I can afford when my iPad gives up completely. As long as it doesn't smoke too much, it's still good to go :)

@Drizzel my iPad after a long cpu consuming run, but it is ok now. I always have a glass of water ready

@cvp @Drizzel suprisingly lol iPad stays cool... my phone running hotspot you could cook an egg on at times 😬😅😂

I had discovered that if you search in your scripts a text containing long Unicode characters, the range of the selected text was erroneously computed. @jonB did find a corrected way to extract the selected text and thus, his customMenuItem.py module should be corrected. You will find my own version here new customMenuItem.py