[texworks] Need Help creating a script

Johannes Heck heck.johannes at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 17:56:38 CEST 2016


Replace: \n
With: \\\\\n

works fine. As TeXWorks is able to remember the last search&replace
requests, that works fine for me. No need for a script.

Thanks, Johannes

2016-06-18 10:21 GMT+02:00 Mark Yagnatinsky <markyag at gmail.com>:

> Ignasis said what I should have said.  To be even more explicit:
>
> Replace: \n
> With: \\\\\n
>
> Make sure the following are checked: Regular expression, and Replace
> within selection
>
> And if something goes wrong, there's always Undo :)
>
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Ignasi <nignasi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The search window shows an option for using "regular expressions", just
> mark
> > it and find_&_replace mechanism will support regular expressions
> natively.
> >
> > Ignasi
> >
> > El 18/06/2016 a les 1:13, Reinhard Kotucha ha escrit:
> >>
> >> On 2016-06-17 at 16:41:39 -0400, Mark Yagnatinsky wrote:
> >>
> >>   > why not just use search & replace?
> >>
> >> This is exactly what Johannes had in mind when he said that he
> >> probably needs regular expressions.  The usual search & replace
> >> functions don't allow to specify the end of a line in the search part.
> >>
> >> IMO it would be best if TeXwork's find_&_replace mechanism supports
> >> regular expressions natively, one way or another, without the need to
> >> call external scripts.  Regexps are supported by Qt, hence the
> >> implementation shouldn't be too difficult.
> >>
> >> The difficult part is the user interface.  Since TeXworks is supposed
> >> to lower the barrier to entry, unexperienced users shouldn't be
> >> bothered with things they don't understand.  On the other hand it's
> >> necessary to support experienced users too.
> >>
> >> Designing a good graphical user interface is always a big challenge.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>    Reinhard
> >>
> >>   > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Johannes Heck
> >> <heck.johannes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>   > > Dear TW-Users,
> >>   > >
> >>   > > I want to create a TW script that inserts a \\ linewrap at the
> >>   > > end of every line of a selected text.  I guess I'll have to use
> >>   > > some regex, but I don't now how to start...  Can anyone help?
> >>   > >
> >>   > > Thanks!
> >>
> >
> >
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