Hello On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Today I have to replace about 350 instances of one word with another. > Unfortunately, it also requires human intervention because other, > unpredictable changes in the surrounding text may be necessitated by the > change. > > I've been using LyX's Find facility to find each instance of the target word. > Unfortunately, I cannot use the "Replace" button because the "Replace" button > first replaces and then finds the next instance of the target word, which is > usually exactly what you want. > > But in my case, the fact that it moves down the document ruins it for me, > because I can no longer look at and change the context around the item I just > changed. Nor can I search up and find it, because it's already been changed. > > So I've been clicking the find button, then Alt+Tab to go to the document, > then typing in the new word, changing any necessary context, then Ctrl+F to go > back to the find dialog, then Alt+N to next. Ugh! > > What would be nice for people in my situation, which I admit doesn't happen > too often, would be to add a fifth button to the find dialog -- one that > replaces and stays where it is. Admittedly for most tasks this would be more > work, so the current Replace button must be kept, but for occasions like mine, > the new button would GREATLY reduce the work. > Have you considered doing this outside LyX, in some text editor? I would heartily recommend Geany, which features 'replace' and 'replace & find' buttons in it's Replace dialogue.
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