Find Replace in Script Editor with cr

[Brian Milby]

If using Atom would be helpful for your task, then ScriptTracker could facilitate that:

https://github.com/bwmilby/scriptTracker

It exports all of the scripts of a stack to files and can watch that directory for changes and automatically import the changes back into the stack.  (I would be curious at the performance on a project that large.)

Another option would be to use the code from button 1003 as inspiration to write a script that would make your change in all scripts in a stack (thinking of the logic that I used to get to every script of a stack without going into shared objects more than once).

I know you didn’t want to deal with doing it in code, but just wanted to offer a possibility.

Thanks,
Brian

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 5, 2021, at 11:44 AM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> No. I mean using the find/replace tool panel of the script editor to insert
> line feed characters to create a new line.
> 
> For instance, suppose I have multiple commands on one line separated by ;
> and I want to search for semicolon and replace with semicolon followed by
> return character to drop the remaining script onto a new line. That kind of
> thing. It’s just easier than taking the whole script and pasting into
> another text editor to do the same operation. With 17,000 scripts to go
> through, it’s a bit tedious doing it by copy paste fix copy paste all the
> time.
> 
>> On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 15:22, Craig Newman via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Of course you have to extract the script first (it is a property) then
>> work it, then reset the property/
>> 
>> Craig
>> 
>>> On Apr 3, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Just wondering if there is a way of replacing using cr in the
>> find/replace
>>> panel of the script editor. For example, I have a lot of instances in my
>>> inherited code that has 'then put' ... that I want to put over two lines
>>> and then, if necessary add an end if later on. Is there a way to insert a
>>> cr between 'then' and 'put' from the panel? It would be useful to know
>> for
>>> other things too.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Sean
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