Find & Replace

[phossler]

I got some ideas in my earlier post

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...highlight=tags

but I can't figure out if it's possible to ignore a 'Find' if it's inside a tag(s)

Say for example i have

<p class="big black">See the big cat</p>

and I want to just replace 'big' with 'large' but only in the text

<p class="big black">See the large cat</p>

How to do it?

It'd be nice if there was a F&R checkbox to "Ignore in tags"

[DNSB]

An equivalent to Sigil's Text checkbox to restrict search to text?

[kovidgoyal]

Click the search menu and in there you will find search ignoring HTML markup

[phossler]

Thanks for pointing that out

However

1. The setting doesn't seem to be persistent, i.e. once set it does not stay set for the next search

2. I get this error

calibre, version 9.14.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'setFocus'

calibre 9.14 embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.14.7
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-parallel.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (2, 34, 0) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (2, 34, 0) && KFX Output (2, 20, 1) && Action Chains (1, 20, 10) && Clean Comments (0, 2, 3) && Diaps Editing Toolbag (0, 5, 0) && Editor Chains (1, 1, 9) && EpubMerge (3, 3, 0) && EpubSplit (3, 12, 0) && Generate Cover (2, 4, 1) && Hyphenate This! (0, 1, 4) && Integrity Analysis (1, 5, 0) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (2, 34, 0) && From KFX (2, 34, 0) && KFX Input (2, 34, 0) && Set KFX metadata (from KFX Output) (2, 20, 1) && Manage Series (1, 5, 4) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 9) && Quality Check (1, 14, 7) && ScrambleEbook (0, 6, 0) && View Manager (1, 10, 5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 1257, in show_text_search
AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'setFocus'

I have <p class = "bold"> ....... in the document, and I try regular Find it finds the text inside the tags

I I need to find the word in plain old text and if I select {Search], [Search ignoring HTML markup] I get the error.

Am I doing something the wrong way?

[kovidgoyal]

the error is harmless and will be removed in the next release. and its not a setting it open a new panel (usually in the bottom left corner) where you can do searches ignoring HTML markup

[phossler]

OK, i found the new panel it opens and it does Find non-tagged text

My unsolicted comments are that it seems to operate very differently than the 'standard' Find/Replace

I can't do a [Replace] or [Replace all] or [Replace find next]. The triangle icons for Find next and find previous work nicely but only to jump to the next occurance.

It would be my guess that if a user was looking for non-tagged text, a replacement would be common thing to do

I'd be my thought that just using a fourth check box by
[ ] Case Sensitive [ ] Wrap [ ] Dot all [ ] Ignore HTML markup
would be more flexible