[BeckyEbook]

Thank you both for the years of developing the Sigil application.

What am I missing?

• The ability to rename files in BookBrowser via plugins.

Explanation: I KNOW this requires checking all linkages to every other file, but since Rename in the GUI does this all the time, the plug would do it too.

• Ability to enable/disable adding Sigil version to metadata in the OPF file.

Explanation: I would not like to offend the creators and developers of Sigil with this proposal, I simply express my subjective opinion. I am proud to use Sigil, but like having clean metadata. Theoretically, the output plugin could help, though invoking a plugin and simply hitting "Save" makes a difference.

• Templates for the table of contents/index.

Explanation: I mean the possibility to "build" a different layout, because the current one has a hardcoded <div> structure, even if I adapt it to my needs, another TOC refresh will restore the default layout again.
This is where a plugin could help, if there was a function that would give the TOC/index "ingredients" to styleaccording to the current table of contents settings, including "sigil_not_in_toc", "sigil_index_marker" etc. Sure, you could write a plugin to do the table of contents in a different form, but the plugin would do 99% of what Sigil is already doing, adding only the final layout of the TOC.xhtml file.

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As for Saved Searches:
In my opinion, the existing solution is not perfect. The fact that it forces you to pre-set all the options and then load saved searches is the weakest point. It also means that - although I like this option - I rarely use it. It may seem strange, but I have quite a few different searches where the key information is whether they are normal or regex searches.
If I save them in Saved Searches in a folder, I always have to remember that these are normal, and these are regex ...
I would like to be able to have any searches in the folder so that it could be performed sequentially, e.g.

1. regex
2. regex
3. normal
4. case sensitive
5. regex, enabled "DotAll"
6. normal
7. regex

etc.

I see different solutions, always taking into account backward compatibility.

Sample solution:
We ignore backward compatibility Just kidding.
For backward compatibility, we ignore the existing sigil_searches.ini file and from version 1.5 only save sigil_searches_new.ini
The file structure may be the same:

[search_entries]
1\Name=XXX
1\Find=YYY
1\Replace=ZZZ

but we add

1\Options=QQQ

If someone insists and downgrades Sigil:
* will have its old file
* if he wants to use newly created searches he can make a copy of the new ini file and name it sigil_searches.ini and IMHO should work with previous versions of Sigil.