[texworks] Need Help creating a script

Mark Yagnatinsky markyag at gmail.com
Sat Jun 18 10:21:47 CEST 2016


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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