Is there a way to use the selection in a Saved Search?

[phossler]

Editing a book with a number of foreign words repeated in many places that I wanted to bracket in <i>foreign_word</i>

I was using Find: (foreign_word#1), Replace: <i>\1</i>

Get the next word or phrase, repeat

Occurred to me that if I had a Saved Search that would use the Selected text:

Find: ($Selected), Replace: <i>\1</i>

then I could just select the text, run the search, select next text, run search, repeat

[theducks]

Originally Posted by phossler

Editing a book with a number of foreign words repeated in many places that I wanted to bracket in <i>foreign_word</i>

I was using Find: (foreign_word#1), Replace: <i>\1</i>

Get the next word or phrase, repeat

Occurred to me that if I had a Saved Search that would use the Selected text:

Find: ($Selected), Replace: <i>\1</i>

then I could just select the text, run the search, select next text, run search, repeat

You can bring up the saved searches via Search → Saved searches. This will present you with a list of search and replace expressions that you can apply. You can even select multiple entries in the list by holding down the Ctrl Key while clicking so as to run multiple search and replace expressions in a single operation.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by theducks

You can even select multiple entries in the list by holding down the Ctrl Key while clicking so as to run multiple search and replace expressions in a single operation.

I learn something every day. Thanks!

[jbacelar]

Originally Posted by phossler

Occurred to me that if I had a Saved Search that would use the Selected text:

In Regex mode

1º- Search: (.+)
2º- Replace: <i>\1</i>
3º- Select the word.
4º- Mark selected text
5º- Press the Search button
6º- Press the Replace button

And that's it.

[phossler]

Originally Posted by theducks

You can bring up the saved searches via Search → Saved searches. This will present you with a list of search and replace expressions that you can apply. You can even select multiple entries in the list by holding down the Ctrl Key while clicking so as to run multiple search and replace expressions in a single operation.

Yes, I understand that part. But I was wondering about something more flexible that would allow me to use the same Stored search, but be 'smart enough' to use the selected text as the Find.

As example, the same store search using _SELECTION_ in Find What could be used in both cases just be selecting the word and running the same Store Search

[phossler]

Originally Posted by jbacelar

In Regex mode

1º- Search: (.+)
2º- Replace: <i>\1</i>
3º- Select the word.
4º- Mark selected text
5º- Press the Search button
6º- Press the Replace button

And that's it.

I tried that, but it doesn't seem to just bracket the marked word

[jbacelar]

Did you press the Find button and then the Replace button?

[phossler]

Yes

Double Clicked the word (Oktober) to select just the word, Ctrl-Shift-M to Mark it, and clicked Saved Search (Test) to [Find]

Them Saved Search [Replace]

Looks like the rest of the paragraph gets the <i> … </i> and not just the one word I was looking for

Interestingly, it seems like the Marked area was extended to the rest of the paragraph also

[theducks]

Originally Posted by phossler

Yes

Double Clicked the word (Oktober) to select just the word, Ctrl-Shift-M to Mark it, and clicked Saved Search (Test) to [Find]

Them Saved Search [Replace]

Looks like the rest of the paragraph gets the <i> … </i> and not just the one word I was looking for

Interestingly, it seems like the Marked area was extended to the rest of the paragraph also

(.+) says capture everything
I think you want something less 'grabby' like (\w+)

[phossler]

It's a little awkward since it only seems to work with the word after the empty text cursor (insertion point)

I have to put the cursor before the word, Find and Replace. That's OK -- just counter-intuitive

It doesn't work for a selected phrase; it just Finds the single word after the selected phrase, and applies the Replace to just that word

I'm guessing that even RegEx has no way to 'read' what ever the selected text is, so that was where my thought process conops of using a 'marker'(e.g. _SELECTION_) which would use whatever the selected text is

[jbacelar]

Originally Posted by phossler

Interestingly, it seems like the Marked area was extended to the rest of the paragraph also

Naturally, you must select, previously, search in Marked text.

[phossler]

I understand that part (now), but that still only Replaces that single instance of marked text

The other occurrences in the document are not replaced

So in my "Oktober" test case, the marked instance does get replaced by <i>Oktober</i>, but the other 199 occurences of "Oktober" do not

[jbacelar]

Originally Posted by phossler

The other occurrences in the document are not replaced

Oh! okay.
Then I think we should use the universal copy and paste (in parentheses, see image).
Without marking anything.

[phossler]

That sounds interesting -- I could make that work.

Is that a different screen from the one attached? I couldn't find one that looked close

Few extra steps (copy the word(s) & paste CAREFULLY between the (..) )

It's be a little smoother if _SELECTED_ or something was canned in the stored search, but your idea is pretty good

I have to add some more Replaces to handle words in different languages, something like

Find: (……)

Replace: <span lang="de">\1</span>



Thanks

[theducks]

Maybe you could have your search use the 'OR' type regex
(aword|bword|cword|dword)