[issue22460] idle editor: replace all in selection

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.6, Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue22460] idle editor: replace all in selection

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy stage: needs patch -> test needed versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue22460] idle editor: replace all in selection

Changes by Mark Roseman : -- nosy: +markroseman ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue22460] idle editor: replace all in selection

bagrat lazaryan added the comment: replacing across multiple files is something i personally considered too fancy for idle, but that's a great feature. the same goes for smart selections like selecting multiline statements. if they don't contradict idle's simplicity ideology they are great

[issue22460] idle editor: replace all in selection

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: About your email problem: post to core-mentorship list and if you cannot do that, write to Ezio Melotti and/or R. David Murray directly, as they are tracker maintainers. -- stage: - needs patch ___ Python tracker

[issue22460] idle editor: replace all in selection

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This is an interesting idea, but not a high priority. One can selectively replace now with [Find], [Replace], and [Replace+Find] buttons. I have been thinking about improving the Search and Replace dialogs, so I will not immediately reject this. Some

[issue22460] idle editor: replace all in selection

New submission from bagrat lazaryan: say, for renaming a variable in a block of code, or in a function, or renaming a method name in a class, etc. nothing fancy here, a button in the replace dialog will do. i think the proposed functionality is needed much more often than the currently