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Bug 355417

Summary:	Support regexp replace
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	libing wang <libingw>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	adrian.aichner, john.arthorne, libingw
Version:	0.2
Target Milestone:	2.0 M1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Mark Macdonald

2011-08-22 13:47:04 EDT

Find/replace should allow you to use special syntax in the "Replace" field to refer to special characters (eg. \n, \t) as well as parenthesized groups captured from the matched text.

Example:
   Find: (var|function)
   Replace: \1\t
   Regular expression: (checked)
Should find occurrences of "var" and "function" and insert a tab character after them.



See also
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace#Specifying_a_string_as_a_parameter

Comment 1 Adrian Aichner

2012-12-03 11:21:58 EST

Greetings All!

Please consider my pull request
https://github.com/eclipse/orion.client/pull/20
to implement this enhancement.

I wrote all this code, and I have the right to contribute it to Eclipse under the eclipse.org website terms of use.

Regards
Adrian

Comment 2 libing wang

2012-12-04 09:23:07 EST

Hi, anaran, 
I had a quick review of your code and they look good.
I will merge them into our master branch very soon.
Thanks a lot ,

-Libing

Comment 3 libing wang

2012-12-05 10:00:27 EST

Merged with http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=fef6691cffbbe2ab808d985fcb84feca0f5a8b43.

Thanks again, Anaran.

Comment 4 John Arthorne

2012-12-10 16:18:29 EST

It looks like this works for "Replace", but not for "Replace All". Entered bug 396224. Cool feature though!