QUESTION page content / component search

[vanfruniken]

In my pre-GetSimpleCMS days I enjoyed being able to do a global directory search to locate all occurrences of code that needed to be attended to.

I view this kind of thing as a feature of the development environment, rather than something the CMS should provide.

Exactly, no need to slow down the client experience.
Merely a possible developers' feature.
However I noticed that when pasting plain html page content into GetSimple page source, remaining javascripts and css continue to work (even though they should be weeded out ASAP and moved to components or data/uploads/), an i18n search does show in-line js and css in the search results.

Still, it would be nice if we could find all pages/components where a certain (e.g., dynpages) shortcode was used, where certain html tags (e.g., href) and parameters are used, there might even be a use to also cover template files in such a search.

If you need a way of doing global search and replace, I can recommend rpl. I use it for server migrations (e.g., from development URL to production) and http to https, for example. It's a Python script, so no installation required if you already have Python and I can run it remotely on the hosting server without drama. It will operate on any text file (.xml, .php, ...), recursively from the base directory or focussed on a small subset of files.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll give rpl a try. But now that you mention this, a texteditor such as TextWrangler/BBEdit could run a file search in a collection of mounted FTP subdirectories.