Re: Search-and-replace text in Firefox
Ben wrote: Anyone know of a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey userscript which provides an ad hoc search-and-replace text feature? I frequently find myself wanting to do this within an HTML form's TEXTAREA box, or even across multiple text fields. I could, of course, copy-and-paste to another text editor, or even use one of the extensions that will fire up an external text editor. However, that is cumbersome -- for some of my usage cases, impractically so. I need something lightweight, that lives inside the browser, and that I can invoke easily and quickly. While it only works with text areas, I'm mostly happy with the It's All Text extension. I have a 3x3 workspace grid and keep Netscape in the lower left and get there via 1 on the numeric keypad. So I've added an emacs there too and for editing a textarea on various blogs click on edit, edit in emacs, save and go back to Netscape. Less hassle than cut paste. I'd probably keep using It's All Text even if I knew of a searchreplace addon. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Search-and-replace text in Firefox
Hello all, Anyone know of a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey userscript which provides an ad hoc search-and-replace text feature? I frequently find myself wanting to do this within an HTML form's TEXTAREA box, or even across multiple text fields. This sort of thing is sometimes called find-and-replace text or text substitution. In GUI editors it is popularly mapped to [CTRL]+[H]. In Emacs, it would be called Query Replace and mapped to [ALT]+[SHIFT]+[%]. In vi, it would be the :s/foo/bar/ command. I could, of course, copy-and-paste to another text editor, or even use one of the extensions that will fire up an external text editor. However, that is cumbersome -- for some of my usage cases, impractically so. I need something lightweight, that lives inside the browser, and that I can invoke easily and quickly. I tried Google, addons.mozilla.org, and userscripts.org, but couldn't seem to construct the right search string. I kept getting false matches of unrelated stuff. I'm hope somebody here knows of something already. Or maybe just has better luck with the search engine gods. advTHANKSance -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Search-and-replace text in Firefox
Ben Scott wrote: Anyone know of a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey userscript which provides an ad hoc search-and-replace text feature? I frequently find myself wanting to do this within an HTML form's TEXTAREA box, or even across multiple text fields. Xinha WISIWIG Editor https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1449 Right click in a TextArea and choose Open Xinha Here (probably has a shortcut key too). Just found it. I guess my Google-Fu was stronger today. Works fairly well in my admittedly short testing. Does a lot more than just find and replace. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
