A few suggestions

[mikapanja]

@ kovid

I have a few suggestions regarding Calibre Edit Book. Don't know how hard it is to implement them, but would kindly ask you to consider:

1) adding "Split at Cursor" option in code view (possibly via right click or a keyboard shortcut - Sigil used CTRL+Space). It would give more control and be more precise than the existing green-line solution;

2) adding "Minimal Match" for RegEx searches next to "Wrap" in search mode;

3) adding the buttons and/or keyboard shortcuts to change lettercase: lowercase, uppercase, capitalize headline-style, capitalize sentence-style; this was mentioned earlier, don't know if you're working on it or not.

Thank you for all your hard work

[mrmikel]

In the short term, this can be accomplished by a macro program like Phrase Express, which has these functions built, but which takes some study to figure out how to make the macros work. I recall the same learning curve with Auto Hotkey.

[kovidgoyal]

1) Split at cursor does not make sense, what if the cursor is not at a location where splitting is legal? If you want to split based on the code view, right click and choose split at multiple locations, that will allow you to split based on tag id/tag name, basically any XPath

2) I dont know what you mean by minimal match. If you want quantifiers like * and + to be non-greedy simply follow them with a ? in the expression.

[mikapanja]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

1) Split at cursor does not make sense, what if the cursor is not at a location where splitting is legal? If you want to split based on the code view, right click and choose split at multiple locations, that will allow you to split based on tag id/tag name, basically any XPath

2) I dont know what you mean by minimal match. If you want quantifiers like * and + to be non-greedy simply follow them with a ? in the expression.

1) There are instances where I would like to split a file at a single location, not at multiple locations. If that should happen to be a location where splitting is not legal, Calibre could just refuse to do it, with an appropriate warning.

2) Minimal Match is a Sigil name for ungreedy matching. It uses (?U) to match the first occurrence of a string. Let's say I want to find (and later replace, according to a rule) entries in HTML TOC:

- in Sigil's RegEx mode, when I type >(\w)(.*)?< in Find box, I get >Cover<;

- in Calibre's RegEx mode, I get >Cover</a><.

So, I guess my question is if Calibre could use (?U) prefix for this kind of search.

[kovidgoyal]

1) So insert id="split_here" there and use the split at multiple locations tool to split on tags with id="split_here"

2) There is no ?U operator in calibre's regex engine. If you want to match non greedily,a ll you need to do is, use: >(\w)(.*?)<

Note the position of the question mark.

[mikapanja]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

1) So insert id="split_here" there and use the split at multiple locations tool to split on tags with id="split_here"

2) There is no ?U operator in calibre's regex engine. If you want to match non greedily,a ll you need to do is, use: >(\w)(.*?)<

Note the position of the question mark.

1) Works, thanx!

2) That solved the Find part, now I need help with the Replace part

I'd like to replace ALL CAPS with capitalize headline-style (i.e. ONE with One) in HTML TOC. In Sigil, I used >\u\1\L\2\E<, but it gives an error in Sigil.

Also, is it possible to use Calibre's RegEx engine to replace multiword entries, say ABOUT THE PUBLISHER with About the Publisher (or, at least, About The Publisher)?

[kovidgoyal]

You have to wait for me to implement the function mode for search and replace to be able to do that, and many other things.

[mikapanja]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You have to wait for me to implement the function mode for search and replace to be able to do that, and many other things.

OK, fair enough.

I have a few more suggestions, and would like to hear your opinion, if you don't mind.

1) When right-clicking style name in the code, add the option to skip to it in the stylesheet. Useful if a book has a long stylesheet.

2) Enable adding a blank HTML/XHTML file in the File Browser.

3) Enable adding a copy of the selected file in the File Browser. Useful if one wants to use a part of the code from the previous file.

4) Enable adding an ID anchor via right click.

Thank you in advance

[kovidgoyal]

1) On my todo list

2) You can already do this

3) Create blank file and use copy/paste

4) I dont see the point, it will save you typing five characters id=""

[mikapanja]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

1) On my todo list

2) You can already do this

3) Create blank file and use copy/paste

4) I dont see the point, it will save you typing five characters id=""

Sorry about the blank file, missed it

If you could bear with me just a little longer, here are a few final thoughts.

5) Enable removing bold/strong and italic/em tags on selected text that already has them, i.e. toggle adding/removing them.

6) Add "Replace Hyperlink" in HTML files, or incorporate it into "Insert Hyperlink". The goal is to be able to overwrite the old hyperlink if it exists, not to add new hyperlink next to the old one.

7) Enable indenting/unindenting multiple selected TOC entries via left arrow/CTRL+L and right arrow/CTRL+R.

8) Enable moving multiple selected TOC entries up or down, without indenting/unindenting. The current two-step solution (first indenting, then moving) is elegant, but it's not good for multiple entries.

Thank you for your patience

[kovidgoyal]

5 and 6 - patches are welcome

7 -8 use drag and drop

[mikapanja]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

5 and 6 - patches are welcome

7 -8 use drag and drop

5 and 6 - wish I could help, sadly don't know anything about programming

7 and 8 - tried earlier, but missed those tiny differences in placement. Now I see it.

Thank you for all your help!

[mikapanja]

@ kovid

Two more suggestions:

1) add new color scheme, so that one can choose white background for editing code;

2) enable refreshing the ToC pane after editing the .ncx file directly, just like refreshing File Preview pane after editing code.

Thanx!