"Replace"-preview improvement

Tool for Search and Replace across multiple files.
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Stefan

"Replace"-preview improvement

Post by Stefan »

I like the new preview for the replace-feature
and have think about some improvements, maybe you
like and want to add them.

1.)
I suggest to add an new "Preview"-button like
[Find] [Replace] [Preview] [Extract]
or as an sub-menu of the Replace-button.

That new button should show an preview of the
current selected file (as it is now)

2.)
I like to see the old and the new text
side-by-side like:

old text
replacement text
.
old text
replacement text
.


3.)
or how about to open an new dialog for the preview
with two scrollable panes, one for the old text
and one for the replacement text like:

Replace Preview
================
old text
old text
old text
================
new text
new text
new text
================
[Close]

That would do an replace for an whole file
and show that with the original text for previewing.



Hope that is useful.

Thanks
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DV

Post by DV »

Good ideas!
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