- this is "only" a "search for a string in some file and put a
nive web display", right? I'm not missing any features?
Actually, you can use the built-in command 'Find in Project' to get almost the same result, except for: -each occurrence is written as a new line; so if you have 10 occurrences you will have 10 lines output (not my favorite) -if I'm looking for regexp '>(.*?)<' 'find in project' also highlight '>' and '<' (maybe a changeable?) -there is no way to see the result of virtual replacements -there is no way to get/copy all occurrences out from that (?) -you have to save your document in beforhand (I'm often dealing with temp files, because I have to convert dozens of text files)
The reasons why I'm writing this are: 1) to verify my regular expression in beforehand if I want to make a 'find/replace all' statement with this regular expression -- this is the main reason for writing hypersearch (coming soon)!! I want to include the result of such 'virtual' replacement within the HTML page. 2) to get all results of the regular expression as a new document (coming soon)!! 3) to display ALL occurrences of a plain string or the result of a regular expression search according to the document's format 4) maybe some other users prefer Hypersearch instead of 'Find in Project' for a single file
5) to learn how to use TM better ;)
So 'final' was the wrong word here!
- are you thinking on extending this to support finding over
several files or the entire project?
Well, this is a good idea. But, as I mentioned before. You can also use 'Find in Project' for that. But I will see...
I hope I don't sound too offensive :)
Not at all ;)
Best,
Hans