Improvements to be the best program in the world

Tool for Search and Replace across multiple files.
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Your sincere friend

Improvements to be the best program in the world

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Only one thing is missing in your program, and is regarding the backup for the option to replace or extract.
You should add the following to create the backup:

- () "In the same place"
- () "In a different folder."

Now the options for "In the same place" would be:
- Define backup extension (by default. Bak, for example file.php.bak)
- [] If the file already exists [replace] [ask] [mark as only] (override default)

Now the options for "In a different folder" would be:
- Choose Folder.
- [] Create or maintain as the source structure
- Define backup extension (by default the same file extension)
- [] If the file already exists [replace] [ask] [mark as only] (override default)

And to make your program even more super good, you could implement a task manager. Here you can save the work I want to do forever. In each task are the actions that I make and in a specific order that I choose (for example: [SEARCH] (with its parameters: the source folder, filter, etc.) [REPLACE] (with its parameters: replacement text, case sensitive, multi line, backup options, etc.) [REPLACE] (with its parameters: replacement text, case sensitive, multi line, backup options, etc.) [SEARCH] (with its parameters From source folder, filter, etc.) [REPLACE] (with its parameters: replacement text, case sensitive, multi line, backup options, etc), ...).

I hope my suggestions taken into account, so your program would be the most perfect the world, thanks.
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DV

Post by DV »

Good ideas, thanks.
The backup option exists - but your idea for an optional backup location is good.
The batch option does do some of what you suggest, but is missing the location/filter parameters. I would like to expand this so it is like a full scripting language but haven't had the time!
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