I would like the find/replace GUI tool to have an option to use the contents of a noun to use for find and the contents of another noun for replace.
It can be very useful to do a search during editing and have the search contain chars like LF or TAB somewhere in the string. While we are at it I find the find in files GUI tool also very helpful. Often I find that I am looking for somethings in many files and I get a lot of results. I know what I am looking for is in one of the files that have been found. I would then like to do a new search but this time only using the results from the results of the former search. 2011/2/10 Tikkanz <[email protected]> > Working with a big file like that I'd be more inclined to use J > directly rather than GUI Find/Replace. > > mystring rplc LF;' ';'.';LF > > Are you essentially asking whether the Find/Replace should actually > just be a GUI interface for rplc? > > 2011/2/9 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > > I am working with a file and editing it under J7 GTK > > > > When I copied the file in all the words came in on one word per line. > > > > I wanted to change this removing the LF and replacing them with space. > > I put the cursor after a word and used copy and in the find window I > pasted > > in and opened up replace and put a space in. > > > > After a long time it finished and I had one very long line. > > The file was over 20.000 lines long before the operation. > > > > I then did a similar operation with . and replacing that with . and LF > > > > Having this working like this is fine. > > > > What I do like to know if I can control better if/when I want to use > > LF/TAB/CR and other invisible char in find/replace? > > > > Working with copy/paste on invisible chars is not very easy. > > > > -- > > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > > Fornustekkum II > > 781 Hornafirði, > > t-póst: [email protected] > > gsm: +3546985532 > > sími: +3544781286 > > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > > | ) | (\_ _/) > > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
