On 31.03.2007, at 16:40, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 23. Mar 2007, at 09:52, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
[...] 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.
The disadvantage is loss of meta data such as bookmarks, foldings, having to re-parse the file for syntax highlight. And of course, that I would have to spend time on the 1.x code base rather than use the time to get 2.0 (which will have better performance when using newlines in replacements) nearer beta stage ;)
OK I see. Except for bookmarks my experience is that TM is faster to re-parse a document than to replaces newlines. My suggestion was only directed towards a kind of an option for the user with some explaining notes.
BTW How can I cancel such a long-term replacement in TM? I tried apple +. etc. but finally I had to kill the entire TM process.
regards,
hans
PS sorry for the question about __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING. I was too lazy to look at the command line ;)