[TxMt] Find/Replace Speed (inserting of many \n)

[Hans-Joerg Bibiko]

Hi,

I have a tiny suggestion.

For me it is often the case that I have to replace, let's say hex  
\x0B (TAB INDENTION), with '\n'. If I do it using TM's Find/Replace  
dialog it takes several minutes for a file with 400 lines and, let's  
say 4000 occurrences of '\x0B'. Furthermore TM occupies a lot of my  
CPUs.

If I do the same by using the 'Filter-Command' with e.g. 'perl -npe s/ 
\x0B/\n/g' it only takes a few seconds.

I could image that the speed problem arises if the Find/Replace  
routine has to insert '\n'.

Would it make sense to include an option or button within the Find/ 
Replace dialog, like 'External Replace All' or whatever, to call an  
external maybe perl/sed/ruby routine to do the job, esp. if I want to  
insert many NEW LINES?

I don't know what kind of disadvantages it would have.

Of course, one could write a tmCommand with a dialog to do it (or  
using the Filter command), but in order to avoid additional typing I  
would suggest to include such a functionality within TM's Find/ 
Replace dialog. Esp. for users who don't know the syntax to write  
such a regular expression would it be helpful, I think.

Cheers,

Hans