Recent changes to feature-requests

make syntax highlighting configurable

Oliver — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:33:43 -0000

Hi,

could the syntax highlighting made be configurable? I didn't find an option to turn if off. There is only an option for changing the font, which does not work for the syntax highlighted text.

Best regards,
Oliver

allow manual removal of folders and files

Noel Grandin — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:36:06 -0000

Sometimes I would like to do a little manual tweaking of the set of the files I want to work on - it would be nice to be able to right-click on a file or folder and do a "remove from view" on it

Thanks

colorise regexp entry fields

Noel Grandin — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:12:31 -0000

Thanks for an awesome tool!

It would be nice if the regular expression text entry fields had some basic coloring to indicate the differences between regular text and regexp command characters.

option for literal matching

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:33:02 -0000

Awesome tool!

For doing search-and-replace work on code, it would be lovely if I had a tick-box for kicking it into "literal" mode where all of the characters were escaped.

As an example, I am trying to replace
GetTxtFmt()->Count()
with
GetTxtFmt()->size()

But I have to add 5 or 6 slashes into that to make it work because so many of the characters are meaningful to regex engine.

Thanks.

Keep last 10 directories used

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:10:46 -0000

It could be very useful to keep trace of the last directories used in regexer.

Abilitity to load list of files from external text file

Dov Grobgeld — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:26:53 -0000

Currently the list of files to be worked on is generated by the three fields "Pattern", "recursive" and hidden. Sometimes the list of files is more complex than what can be generated by this command. For such a cases it would be nice if the list of files can be generated externally and then loaded into regexxer.

I suggest the following changes:

1. Add menu entry File/Load file list that calls action load_file_list
2. In load_file_list open up a GtkFileChooserDialog.
3. Create a callback for accepting a list filename.
4. Foreach line in the file check if it is an existing filename (this should preferably be relative to the list filename).
5. Add the basename of the filename to filelist widget.

This interface will make the FindFiles input inconsistent with the contents of the file list, but that is anyhow the case right now since the Pattern entry may be edited without pressing the Find files button.

Ability to save Pattern, Search & Replace configuration

Damjan Kužnar — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:26:11 -0000

In my work I would found it useful to have the ability save a current configuration of file "Pattern", regex "Search" and "Replace" - like a "Project" or something. This way, the next time I would have to perform the same search&replace I could simply load previously saved configuration.

Custom tab widths

Tim Jones — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:32:27 -0000

As the summary says, tab widths other than the default (of 8) would be handy.

Cheers,

Tim

Feature request: cache old searches

Sinisa Segvic — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:36:24 -0000

When inspecting a software project
written by somebody else,
some searches are performed over and over again.

It would be cool if regexxer had a new button,
next to the existing Find button.
The new button would be labeled "Recall",
and it would just present the cached results
of the previous search with the same string.
The button would be inactive if the search string
has not been used before in this session.

To make it even easier, one could promote the edit boxes
for Search and Replace to drop-down boxes
thus allowing to recall a regular expression
carefully constructed five minutes ago.

HTH

Multi-Line search&replace

Gregor — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:04:29 -0000

Yes, I know this feature has already been requested, I
just wanted to emphasize how nice it would be to have :)

Best regards!