Dreamweaver Find/Replace Custom File Extensions

First off, Adobe Dreamweaver’s find/replace is fantastic. That and it’s integration with WinMerge are the only two reasons I still use it on occasion. Otherwise I am trying to learn Vim or hanging out in Textmate.

Problem

Ok I have been noticing for a while now that when I search that it would never look in files with custom extensions. For example, SilverStripe‘s .ss files and someone at work’s .inc files at work.

Background

I thought as I am sure many of you have tried that maybe adding that .ss file to the code view file types like in the image below.

Our Director of Systems & Technology, Alex at work ran into this same problem so I though I would post it to their forum as there was no reference in the forum of such a problem. I spotted a TechNote page that wasn’t a direct answer to the problem but had an example that looked promising.

Solution

The file I noticed was on the TechNote was called Extensions.txt. Here is what the first line looked like.

I thought maybe if I just add the extension there someplace in CAPS the find/replace would start picking up those files and sure enough it did.

Hope that helps.

Here is a list from that help page on where you will find the Extensions.txt

• Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows Vista:
  
  C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingAdobeDreamweaver 9Configuration
• Dreamweaver 8 on Windows Vista:
  
  C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingMacromediaDreamweaver 8Configuration
• Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows XP:
  
  C:Documents and Settings[username]Application DataAdobeDreamweaver 9Configuration
  • Dreamweaver 8 on Windows XP & 2000:
    
    C:Documents and Settings[username]Application DataMacromediaDreamweaver 8Configuration
  • Dreamweaver CS3 on Mac OS X:
    
    Mac HD:Users:[username]:Library:Application Support:Adobe:Dreamweaver 9:Configuration
  • Dreamweaver 8 on Mac OS X:
    
    Mac HD:Users:[username]:Library:Application Support:Macromedia:Dreamweaver 8:Configuration

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