Re: [ jEdit-users ] Replace All

[Patrick W. <jed...@pd...>]

Dima

There is a macro that might help you with this--jEdit'ers, please comment
and improve!

>
> Something I just noticed in jEdit 4.1: if I click Search - Replace All
> it'll
> happily use the last values entered in Find dialog box! I had previousl=
y
> searched for 'c' so it simply deleted all the c's from the file.

Generally, I've found that decisions like this--UI behavior--have been se=
t
for awhile they way they are after long discussion when they were first
developed. That is to say, they generally won't be changed just on one
request. I have no opinion on the subject.

Here is a macro that *might* do what you want--it will prompt first then
run the replace all.

TO OTHER MACRO WRITERS: please comment if you have improvements or
fixes--I'm not familiar with the SearchAndReplace class, this was based o=
n
a recorded macro.

Dima--Save this macro to your /macros directory, either where settings ar=
e
saved for your user id, or in the JEdit installation directory (if you
save in the JEdit install directory you will need to copy it over when a
new version is installed). Then use Shortcuts to assign a shortcut to it,
or run it from the Macros menu.


Patrick

// Macro to prompt before replacing all occurrences of a string in the
// current buffer. Used because Search/Replace All does not prompt.
//
// This uses the *most recent* search and replace settings. These setting=
s
// are NOT specific to the current buffer in this script.
//
// Patrick Wright 30-09-2004

searchFor =3D SearchAndReplace.getSearchString();
replaceWith =3D SearchAndReplace.getReplaceString();

prompt =3D "Replace all occurrences of \n" +
         searchFor + "\n" +
		 "with\n" +
		 replaceWith + "?";
r =3D Macros.confirm(view, prompt, JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION,
JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
if ( r =3D=3D JOptionPane.YES_OPTION ) {
	SearchAndReplace.setSearchString(searchFor);
	SearchAndReplace.setReplaceString(replaceWith);

	SearchAndReplace.setBeanShellReplace(SearchAndReplace.getBeanShellReplac=
e());
	SearchAndReplace.setIgnoreCase(SearchAndReplace.getBeanShellReplace());
	SearchAndReplace.setRegexp(SearchAndReplace.getRegexp());
	SearchAndReplace.setSearchFileSet(new CurrentBufferSet());
	SearchAndReplace.setIgnoreCase(SearchAndReplace.getIgnoreCase());

	SearchAndReplace.replaceAll(view);
	Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
}