On 20/9/2006, at 3:07, Fritz Anderson wrote:

[...] I am trying to automate putting spaces after the )s with the search RE /)(?=\S)/, to be replaced with ') ' -- that's close- parenthesis, space.

Have a look at Reformat → Method Signature in the Objective-C bundle. It doesn’t do your style by default, but you can modify the script (I have done that locally to get my style) — then one can just press ⌃Q on a method signature (be it in the interface or implementation) and get it reformatted properly.

I use that a lot when pasting methods from the Cocoa documentation :)

Doing this as a Replace All works as expected. But try pressing the Next button, then Replace. The substitution does not take place.

Am I missing something?

The problem with the “Next” + “Replace” is the look-ahead. The “Replace” is not connected with the previous “Next” and so will replace the selection with the contents of the replace string, regardless of what caused the seletion — for your regexp this will fail, because the selection no longer matches the find pattern (because of the look-ahead).

So all in all, it shouldn’t really work that way, but does for technical reasons.