Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] "Macro" for executing sequential search/replace commands?

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi Greg,

I think that the Filters Menu is your friend. This is exactly what it is about.
You create a filter which is a sequence of search/replace commands (textual or regexp) and then apply the filter to the current window, or only a selection, or even on a directory.
Filters are named and recorded, so they can be reused. Alternatively there is Temporary filter.
See the documentation here:
https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/FiltersMenuHelp.html

Alpha ships with a set of basic filters which can serve as examples.

Cheers,
Bernard


Le 19 déc. 2018 à 09:47, Greg Dunn <gre...@in...> a écrit :

> It seems that the more I use AlphaCocoa, the more I find interesting and useful features to speed my workflow.  However, I'm a bit embarrassed to note
> that there's something I do frequently that I haven't been able to find a shortcut for, and it's likely my lack of experience with the program:
> 
> Many times, when editing a program or even an informational text document, I need to re-format and tweak the document in specific ways.  This entails
> making several global search/replaces, sequentially, because the state of the file is such that a single replace command (even with regex) can't make
> the necessary changes; i.e., the search/replace result is dependent somewhat on the result of the prior search/replace on the global file contents.
> The sequence of commands is the same, but they must be executed one after the other rather than as a single command.
> 
> Of course, I can enter the details in the search dialog, and then perform another dialog, and...  but since I know the exact sequence which needs to
> be performed, I'd like to be able to create a macro set of commands to do this rather than type them all in manually.  Editors like vi can, for
> example, execute multiple commands separated by ";" and can even source them from an external script.
> 
> I know this could be done via AppleScript, but I was wondering if there's a method entirely self-contained in Alpha to handle it?  I see a 'macro'
> feature and am able to record/save a macro, but it doesn't seem to capture sequential search/replace commands with the parameters I entered.
> 
> Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way.  Have I overlooked something really obvious?  It wouldn't be the first time. ;-)
> 
> 
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