> Hi, I've searched all over but can't find an answer. How can one perform
> commands like ':%s/\n/\r\r/g' (replacing newlines or tabs etc.) in the
> gui's 'find and replace' dialogue?
On Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:14:35 PM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Looking at the dialog, it could possibly also get some more > possibilities, e.g. a confirm/undo button, perhaps even more.
Well, there's this in todo.txt:
7 More features in the find/replace dialog:
- regexp on/off
- search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
when all buffers/directory is used:
- filter for file name
when directory is used:
- subdirectory on/off
- top directory browser
> On Do, 24 Mai 2012, Bob von Knobloch wrote:
> > Hi, I've searched all over but can't find an answer. How can one perform
> > commands like ':%s/\n/\r\r/g' (replacing newlines or tabs etc.) in the
> > gui's 'find and replace' dialogue?
> Here is an experimental patch against the gtk gui, that adds an extra > flag, and allows to replace with special chars ,e.g. \t for Tab
> Looking at the dialog, it could possibly also get some more > possibilities, e.g. a confirm/undo button, perhaps even more.
Here is an even improved version of the patch, which adds the buttons Undo and Redo to the gtk and motif version and which adds an extra parameter whether to search/replace literally.
> On Do, 24 Mai 2012, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > On Do, 24 Mai 2012, Bob von Knobloch wrote:
> > > Hi, I've searched all over but can't find an answer. How can one perform
> > > commands like ':%s/\n/\r\r/g' (replacing newlines or tabs etc.) in the
> > > gui's 'find and replace' dialogue?
> > Here is an experimental patch against the gtk gui, that adds an extra > > flag, and allows to replace with special chars ,e.g. \t for Tab
> > Looking at the dialog, it could possibly also get some more > > possibilities, e.g. a confirm/undo button, perhaps even more.
> Here is an even improved version of the patch, which adds the buttons > Undo and Redo to the gtk and motif version and which adds an extra > parameter whether to search/replace literally.
One more update:
- Replace should work better now (and works like in the current version of Gvim).
- When using REPLACE, the cursor is positioned at the next match,
but it doesn't take into account, that it could match at the current cursor position (so adding the flag SEARCH_START to the do_search function) (simple example, search for \. in the gui and replace it by A, you'll notice, it will only replace every other character).
