#592 Repeating filters

[Quaraxkad]

I have a suggestion for an additional non-standard option letter/modifier. Sometimes I have a filter that needs to run multiple times. Typically I will just make X duplicate lines in my filter file and that makes it run X times. Instead, it would be nice if there were an option to specify that a specific filter should be rerun repeatedly until it no longer matches the source (up to a certain number of iterations of course, to prevent infinite loops). It's not a very common need but in some cases it's impossible to re-format things the way I need with a single regex replacement. I've got maybe 5 filters that require it. One of them needs to be repeated up to 100 times, so my filter file has 100 identical lines with the same regex string.

[Quaraxkad]

Will this be possible in future versions?

[Fabian Keil]

Currently nobody is working on this and it's not on our TODO list:
http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO?view=markup

External filters already "support" loops of course:
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER

[Fabian Keil]

Supported using external filters.