Sigil-0.9.991 (1.0 Pre-release)

[BeckyEbook]

Sure. I meant, of course, one window with two columns.

[KevinH]

I will give it a shot.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by KevinH

That should be quite doable. Would this be better, or are regular expressions too hard for most users needs?

I figure the ones that regex is too difficult for probably won't be engaging in much mass-renaming anyway. And there's always the auto-numbering version with the base prefix for those ones.

Just remember to leave the extension out of the new feature. Don't you think? We already have a way of changing the extension on the xhtml files en masse.

How do plan to handle potential duplicate names with RE renamer? Should the entire process fail without edits if any are found? Or would you run a check before the preview to ensure viability of all names in advance?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

How do plan to handle potential duplicate names with RE renamer? Should the entire process fail without edits if any are found? Or would you run a check before the preview to ensure viability of all names in advance?

I lean towards a method that needs the least steps.:
How many times will it use FAIL? Why make a 2 step process for a small percentage of cases? Fail those and run with the norm.

BTW I am just curious. I don't ever remember seeing a crazy long suffix file name. The prefix part...
Is this more common for other than, English language fiction (which is all I can read )?

[BeckyEbook]

Hmmm ...
Maybe you really don't need to add such a function to Sigil.
If it concerns only users per mil, it will be more valuable to add such a possibility to plugins, without multiplying the function to change the name.

[KevinH]

I will give it a try. It will first pop up a Dialog that will ask for Regular Expression and Replacement.

With that it will build a list of before and after filenames for the user to accept or reject.

If accepted, it will check that the future bookpaths are unique before allowing the rename to proceed.

That is the plan anyway. If no one likes it, I can easily dumb it down to make a PrefixTrimmer instead.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by theducks

How many times will it use FAIL? Why make a 2 step process for a small percentage of cases? Fail those and run with the norm.

I don't think you appreciate what "failing" the renaming of a file in Sigil could entail. A mass rename is also a mass updating of all hrefs within the epub.

Way better in my opinion, to know before-hand whether there's potential problems and not let the user proceed with the mass rename if there is.

[odamizu]

I didn't mean to open a can of worms. I was really asking a question about existing features, not making a request for a new one!

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Then it could produce a list of before and after filenames side by side and have OK and CANCEL buttons.

Yes, that sounds fantastic.

Side-by-side Before/Afters would be nice.

As an example, I use Bulk Rename Utility:



and it shows any files that are being changed as green. And any options that are going to be applied with an orange box.

* * *

I think having a Default/Advanced Mode for Sigil's Bulk Rename would work.

Default would be similar to how it is now, except you get a few extra "basic options":

• Remove
  
  • First n
    
  • Last n
    
  • Note: Takes numbers only. Chops off the characters (not counting extension).
    
• Add
  
  • Prefix
    
  • Suffix
    
  • Note: Takes a string. Adds it before/after the filename.
    
• Change Extension To (?)
  
  • (Maybe this could be a separate string box?)
    
  • Currently, this is a "hidden" feature of Sigil. If you type "ReplaceText", it only changes filename, but if you type "ReplaceText.xhtml", the extension gets changed too.

Originally Posted by KevinH

That should be quite doable. Would this be better, or are regular expressions too hard for most users needs?

Maybe Advanced enables you to then use Regex (just a little checkbox toggle? Or maybe the same 3 Mode dropdown as Sigil's Ctrl+F?).

Side Note: Kind of reminds me of Thunar's bulk rename. That regex support was so great to have built directly into the file manager!

https://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/22/bu...-bulk-renamer/

[KevinH]

I have taken a shot at this. I have pushed a very simple, very basic working version to master.

See the BookBrowser context menu for RE Renamer. You highlight the resources you want to rename first.

It requests your regex string and your replacement text.

Then it shows you what the results would be. If you accept, it does the actual renaming.

Some things:

• This is for testing purposes and feedback, there is no guarantee this feature will be kept.
• You need to escape a ( as \( to prevent it from being part of a group.
• You will not need to escape \s
• Replacement groups need to look like \1
• The testing for duplicate filenames is done on a file by file basis and no renames will be done on files that create duplicate bookpaths

So it is not pretty but it should be usable. If people think it should stay we can try a better way to handle the escaping for the backslash character.

Feedback welcome!

[BeckyEbook]

The first tests are very promising.
Strength in simplicity!

Only one thing - after pressing "Cancel" in the prior-revised window could return to the window with the formula entered.

Escape works for me with one backslash.

A suggestion for additional avoidance of duplicates (if someone changes all files): If the name in the "Revised Filename" column is repeated - color it in red.

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

The first tests are very promising.
Strength in simplicity!

Only one thing - after pressing "Cancel" in the prior-revised window could return to the window with the formula entered.

Escape works for me with one backslash.

Hmm what about replacements groups? Does \1 work or do you need to use \\1

QRegularExpression docs seem to indicate we need to escape things. For example the only way to get a plain backslash is to use \\\\

As for returning to the RERenamer with the old string that is possible.

KevinH

[BeckyEbook]

No problem.

ch01.xhtml
ch02.xhtml
ch03.xhtml

Find: ch(\d+)
Replace: chapter\1-blah

chapter01-blah.xhtml
chapter02-blah.xhtml
chapter03-blah.xhtml

[KevinH]

So I guess that makes sense as the text is never a literal string being processed by the compiler and is instead the output of a QLineEdit.

So I will edit my earlier post to the fix it.

Done.

I will work in setting the looping around and resetting the first Dialog with initial values.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I don't think you appreciate what "failing" the renaming of a file in Sigil could entail. A mass rename is also a mass updating of all hrefs within the epub.

Way better in my opinion, to know before-hand whether there's potential problems and not let the user proceed with the mass rename if there is.

Got it!
I was thinking a fail was a rollback to before the task was invoked.