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

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:52 AM, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:

> 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'.

Yes the problem has to do with the new lines created being processed  
by the parser immediately. Unless I am mistaken though, this will be  
fixed in 2.0, so if that's the case then I wouldn't expect any  
changes before 2.0.

> Hans

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College