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KevinH · 08-17-2024, 02:27 PM

Sorry but doing find and replace in something that is best done in Sigil itself because of its regular expression capabilities. You can always turn on Preview in Sigil and click on a word to sync CodeView and use Find and Replace in the current file.

Another reason is that Find and Replace in PageEdit is not easy in that two strings may appear side by side (contiguous) in Preview but actually have tags between them and therefore any general text replacement would break those tags causing the resulting xhtml to be not well formed.

Doing find replace in Sigil's CodeView prevents that common problem from happening.

08-17-2024, 02:27 PM	#2
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,884 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Sorry but doing find and replace in something that is best done in Sigil itself because of its regular expression capabilities. You can always turn on Preview in Sigil and click on a word to sync CodeView and use Find and Replace in the current file. Another reason is that Find and Replace in PageEdit is not easy in that two strings may appear side by side (contiguous) in Preview but actually have tags between them and therefore any general text replacement would break those tags causing the resulting xhtml to be not well formed. Doing find replace in Sigil's CodeView prevents that common problem from happening. Last edited by KevinH; 08-17-2024 at 02:43 PM.