M, In particular, *multi-line mode* is excellent! Great news!
It allows step by step changes. J. On Wednesday, 6 March 2019 14:52:51 UTC+1, Mohammad wrote: > > Many Thanks Josiah! > > I would appreciate your time teaching us how to use regexp in Tiddlywiki > and specially here with SNR2. > For the issue you mentioned, I could not find any solution and Jeremy > comments did not help me to understand what I should do! > > By the way, I thought it is better to choose the flag from interface, so I > am adding > > i: ignore case > g: find all (global match) > \b: whole words > m: multi line mode > > So, user can select one or a mixed of them (of course \b is something > separate here!) > > I am not sure if m is useful here, but i and g are used frequently! > > --Mohammad > > > > On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 5:10:19 PM UTC+3:30, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> Mohammad & all interested >> >> I have done a lot of testing of "s-n-r2". It is very good! >> >> >> *DIFFERENCES FROM NORMAL REGEX* >> >> It differs from normal regular expressions in that TiddlyWiki needs to >> guard itself from eating itself. >> >> >> >> *It does this by needing the regex to be wrapped in Quote Marks*. >> >> The type of quote marks differ according to the use-case. >> >> IF a tiddler only contains * ' * then wrapping in * " * will work. And >> vice-versa. >> >> >> IF a tiddler contains both * ' * and * " * quotes then the match string >> is easiest enabled by wrapping it: * """regex""" *. >> >> >> >> *LIMITS* >> >> 1 - I have found NO WAY to safely make changes in a tiddler that contains >> the string * """ *. Those 3 double quotes are likely protecting TW from >> itself but the regex can't currently cope with them. >> >> >> >> *That rules out safe s-n-r via regex in many macros.* >> >> >> >> 2 - SUBSTITUTION. Mohammad and I found out that there is currently no >> easy way to get Control Codes into output replaces. This is problematic as, >> for instance, we need to replace * <pre> * with * \n```\n *. BUT in >> replace the "\n" is only treated as a literal. >> >> >> Best wishes >> Josiah >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b064f9d0-34ef-4938-b647-3e7a513c9acf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
