What Fletcher describes is exactly what I do, too, and really,
isn't it exactly what the OP is asking for? SEEING repeated
instances of a bit of text is handy, but in my view, OPERATING
on repeated instances rightly needs another couple steps. The
assorted BBEdit commands Fletcher describes make it easy to
operate quickly but also carefully if needed. If it isn't clear,
much of the time you can use these commands with key
combinations and never even see the "Find" dialog or click a
Menu bar...
On 12/7/15 at 8:23 AM, [email protected] (Fletcher Sandbeck) wrote:
I do this more times a day than I can count.
Select text to replace, Cmd-E to use selection for find. Edit the text
and re-select it. Cmd-Opt-E to use selection for replace. And then
Cmd-G for find next to see if there's another instance in the
document. I'll do this pretty much any time I'm cleaning up or
refactoring code just to double-check whether the change I'm making
now needs to be repeated elsewhere in the current file. I then use
Cmd-Opt-F for replace and find next. If there are a lot I use
Cmd-Opt-= to simply do the replace all. And sometimes Cmd-Shift-F to
switch over to multi-file mode to search the entire code base for the
same change. There might be a custom menu shortcut in there (or at
least a throwback to an older menu shortcut) and it's all so much
muscle memory now.
[fletcher]
On Dec 5, 2015, at 8:41 PM, Oliver Boermans <[email protected]> wrote:
On 6 December 2015 at 08:59, Greg Raven <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I gave it the keyboard shortcut of Cmd-E!
When there is an instance of the desired replacement within easy reach the Use
Selection for Replace shortcut is nice to have too:
1. Select text to replace.
2. Invoke: Search: Use selection for find (⌘E)
3. Select the text to replace it 4. Invoke: Search: Use
Selection for Replace (⌘⌥E)
5. Invoke: Search: Find… (⌘F)
6. Invoke: Replace All (⌥⌘=)
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