A modest proposal

Notjohn · 08-26-2016, 10:09 AM

Now that Preview Pane has made Sigil a WYSIWYG editor for all practical purposes, I work more and more often in Code View, rather than creating fresh html in my choice of text editors. What would really speed this up is having an icon for double quotes, similar to the boldface, italic, usw icons already there. This would replace multiple mouse clicks with one.

DiapDealer · 08-26-2016, 10:56 AM

You should be able to create a custom Clip to accomplish that pretty easily.

Doitsu · 08-26-2016, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

You should be able to create a custom Clip to accomplish that pretty easily.

@Notjohn: There's also a Clips toolbar that you can enable by right-clicking an empty area in the toolbar and selecting Clip Bar.
BTW, you can also wrap text in tags or quotation marks, e.g. “\1”. (\1 will be replaced by the currently selected text-)

theducks · 08-26-2016, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doitsu

@Notjohn: There's also a Clips toolbar that you can enable by right-clicking an empty area in the toolbar and selecting Clip Bar.
BTW, you can also wrap text in tags or quotation marks, e.g. “\1”. (\1 will be replaced by the currently selected text-)

I use this feature (clips) all the time. You can even paste them into the Replace box instead of applying to

selected text, thus, as building blocks for complex replaces

dynabook · 08-26-2016, 02:24 PM

I am having trouble getting that (pasting clips into Find box) to work. Clips keep pasting into the source even though I click on the Find box first. I have a new Mac with El Capitan. Worked on my old El Capitan Mac. I think I may have made a change in preferences to get it to work but I have forgotten what it was.
--MH

DiapDealer · 08-26-2016, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dynabook

I am having trouble getting that (pasting clips into Find box) to work. Clips keep pasting into the source even though I click on the Find box first. I have a new Mac with El Capitan. Worked on my old El Capitan Mac. I think I may have made a change in preferences to get it to work but I have forgotten what it was.
--MH

Are you thinking of Saved Searches? If you bring up Saved Searches (Tools->Save Searches), You can select a saved search and populate both the Find and Replace boxes, and conduct the F&R activity from within the Saved Searched widget.

If you put your cursor in the Replace box before bringing up the Clip Editor (Tools->Clip Editor) you can select a clip and paste it into the Replace box by hitting the "Paste Clip" button. But the cursor has to be there first. The clip gets pasted wherever the cursor is.

Turtle91 · 08-26-2016, 09:21 PM

Notjohn, here is an image of how I set up the clip bar. It acts as a whole new bar that can hold all kinds of custom commands which get inserted wherever the cursor is located.

The only differences I've noted is that when in code view the clip (ex: "\1") will surround selected text with double quotes, while if you are in the find or replace fields it will replace the selected text with exactly "\1" .

eg.
the clip: \1

In code view with
 
selected, the clip will produce:
  (edit - yes I know this is incorrect - just showing that the tags will surround whatever is selected)

In the find or replace fields anything selected will be replaced by:
\1

RbnJrg · 08-27-2016, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turtle91

The only differences I've noted is that when in code view the clip (ex: "\1") will surround selected text with double quotes, while if you are in the find or replace fields it will replace the selected text with exactly "\1" .

eg.
the clip: \1

In code view with
 
selected, the clip will produce:
 

In the find or replace fields anything selected will be replaced by:
\1

That is because you didn't set the search properly.

First at all, you need to set the search mode as "Regex".
After that, in the "Find:" field you need to write the words to replace between (\byour words here\b).

Following your example, you need to write in the "Find:" field, the following:

Code:

(\b<p>&nbsp;</p>\b)

and after that you'll get

Code:

<em><p>&nbsp;</p></em>

By the way, the correct code would be

Regards
Rubén

Turtle91 · 08-27-2016, 10:01 AM

Thanks Rubén, I was just trying to show an example of how the "clip" acts differently depending on where your cursor is placed, not how to do a find/replace or the proper semantics of . I guess I wasn't very good at explaining...

Quote:

Originally Posted by RbnJrg

That is because you didn't set the search properly.

First at all, you need to set the search mode as "Regex".
After that, in the "Find:" field you need to write the words to replace between (\byour words here\b).

Following your example, you need to write in the "Find:" field, the following:

Code:

(\b<p>&nbsp;</p>\b)

and after that you'll get

Code:

<em><p>&nbsp;</p></em>

By the way, the correct code would be

Regards
Rubén

Notjohn · 08-28-2016, 06:04 AM

(Just thought I'd ask! I don't MIND the symbol icon, or using macros.)

08-26-2016, 10:09 AM	#1
Notjohn mostly an observer Posts: 1,519 Karma: 987654 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	A modest proposal Now that Preview Pane has made Sigil a WYSIWYG editor for all practical purposes, I work more and more often in Code View, rather than creating fresh html in my choice of text editors. What would really speed this up is having an icon for double quotes, similar to the boldface, italic, usw icons already there. This would replace multiple mouse clicks with one.

08-26-2016, 09:21 PM	#7
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,332 Karma: 20171571 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 15/11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	Notjohn, here is an image of how I set up the clip bar. It acts as a whole new bar that can hold all kinds of custom commands which get inserted wherever the cursor is located. The only differences I've noted is that when in code view the clip (ex: "\1") will surround selected text with double quotes, while if you are in the find or replace fields it will replace the selected text with exactly "\1" . eg. the clip: <em>\1</em> In code view with <p> </p> selected, the clip will produce: <em><p> </p></em> (edit - yes I know this is incorrect - just showing that the <em> tags will surround whatever is selected) In the find or replace fields anything selected will be replaced by: <em>\1</em> Last edited by Turtle91; 08-27-2016 at 10:07 AM.

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DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,509 Karma: 204127028 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	You should be able to create a custom Clip to accomplish that pretty easily.

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dynabook Techno-geek Posts: 225 Karma: 1116651 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: PRS-T1 (Black), PRS-T3S (Black), Kobo Aura ONE	I am having trouble getting that (pasting clips into Find box) to work. Clips keep pasting into the source even though I click on the Find box first. I have a new Mac with El Capitan. Worked on my old El Capitan Mac. I think I may have made a change in preferences to get it to work but I have forgotten what it was. --MH

08-28-2016, 06:04 AM	#10
Notjohn mostly an observer Posts: 1,519 Karma: 987654 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	(Just thought I'd ask! I don't MIND the symbol icon, or using macros.)

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