I do this sort of thing fairly often updating old syntax or cloning a site. I like to see every replacement unless I'm doing something really trivial.
If there is something you find yourself replacing often you can add an identifier so you can do a global search/replace without as much worry. For example, replacing "Version: 1.0.0" is a lot less likely to match something unwittingly compared to simply replacing "1.0.0". For me the multi-file search has just become muscle memory. I think I've held onto an old shortcut so Cmd-Opt-F is bound to Replace and Find Again in BBEdit prefs. With that I can work everything from the keyboard and it's pretty fast. Cmd-W closes the current window, restoring the results, then down arrow and return open the next file. At the end I usually do one more search and scan the exceptions. That said, it would be cool if the context menu in the search/replace results dialog box had a "replace" command. You can send feature requests to supp...@barebones.com. [fletcher] > On Feb 16, 2019, at 4:51 PM, Jason Morgan <m.jason.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have many plaintext source code files, and when performing a version > change, I have to go through all of the files, find where the version number > is embedded, and replace it with the next version number. Sometimes, the > version number is the same as some other arbitrary number in the code and I > don't want to blindly replace all of them. I also don't want to click "Find > Next..." then "Replace", and back and forth. I do have "Replace & Find > Next..." but two drawbacks: this does not cycle to the next text file when > at the end of one, and there is no keyboard shortcut for this action. (I > know, I can create one in Mac system prefs.) > > I have tried the multi-file search and this is great at showing me each and > every occurrence with the line of text, love this! I can even CTRL + click > on each result I want, but there is no button to then "replace selected" and > ignore the ones I didn't select. Or vice versa. > > So, I currently open all the files at once, searching one file after another, > using Replace and Find Next..., then when the search loops back to top, I > move to the next file. The focus on the search window is not the same as the > text editor window so Cmd + Opt + ] does not work unless I move focus over to > the text editor, change file, then back to the search and replace window. > > This feels like an action a lot of people would want so am I just missing > something obvious? > > To sum up: I want to select a set of files, search for a piece of text in > all of those files, see the search results, then selectively replace them, > either by: a) selecting the search results I want to be replaced, or b) > replace and find next, across multiple files. > > Thanks a bunch to the community for helping out! > > -Jason > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or need technical support, please email > "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
