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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I tend to use plugin primarily on actual book content.. i.e. chapter files. I rarely include backmatter/frontmatter in my processing (or I don't do it at the same time as every thing else). Plus it's common practice for me to test out an expression on one file before committing to turning it loose on large swathes (but still very rarely all) of a book.
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I've learned to save the file before doing novel regex or complex TagMechanic edits.
Easier to do that and exit/reopen 10% of the time than have to redo the edit 100% of the time if I did a test. For S&R I do a few just "Replace" to see if it's working as expected before unleashing it with "Replace all".
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
As I've mentioned several times already, my mind is entirely made up on how users (including myself) need to select the files that they want this plugin to process. Users will learn that, or they won't. Their choice.
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Sorry to annoy you.
The reason you keep getting this request, and I'm sure will continue to as others discover the plugin, is that users see it as an enhanced Search and Replace, and get frustrated when things like this work differently. The S&R has a tickbox to choose files, which I normally do if necessary AFTER filling in everything else, and the lack of that is surprising to most I think. They open the plugin, work thorough it choosing the tags and options and then nothing happens; nothing in the plugin window tells them they need to choose files before. Eventually you work it out, but if you aren't using it every day it's easy to forget you must do this in a different order than S&R.
So try not to get cheesed off next time someone pops up with this bright idea.