How do you use WinActivate using only part of the title in Pulover's Macro Creator?
Well, here is a start:
SetTitleMatchMode
Sets the matching behavior of the WinTitle parameter in commands such as WinWait.
SetTitleMatchMode, MatchMode
MatchMode
One of the following digits or the word RegEx:
1: A window's title must start with the specified WinTitle to be a match.
2: A window's title can contain WinTitle anywhere inside it to be a match.
3: A window's title must exactly match WinTitle to be a match.
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/SetTitleMatchMode.htm
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I'm doing a lot of text editing right now that involves replacing spans of text with spaces (same number of spaces as number of replaced characters). It would be easier and more efficient if I could somehow highlight/select the text to replace, and then replace it all with blank spaces instead of first deleting the text and then manually refilling the spaces, tabs or newlines, especially during moments where I want to be precise.
For example:
This is my example sentence.
I decide I want to select 'my example' and delete it, like this:
This is sentence.
Instead of having it go like this:
This is sentence.
Is there an easier way to do this?
This is also easy with this extension, Find and Transform (disclaimer: I wrote it). Here is a keybinding that would work (in your keybindings.json):
{
"key": "alt+q", // whatever keybinding you want
"command": "findInCurrentFile",
"args": {
"replace": [ "$${ return `$1`.replace(/./g, ' '); }$$" ],
"isRegex": true,
"restrictFind": "selections",
"postCommands": "cancelSelection" // if you had multiple selections and wanted to clear them
}
}
"restrictFind": "selections" will only work within selections, as many as you want. If you had repetitive text in the document, you could omit this argument and it will find the selected text wherever it occurs in the document and replace it.
The $1 referred to is the selected text.
What you can do is switch your editor find mode to regex, and put "[^\s]" in the find input, and then " " (space) in the replace input. Then select the text you want to replace with spaces and either click the "Find in Selection" button or use the keyboard shortcut (Ex. alt+l). Then click "Replace All" or use the keyboard shortcut (Ex. ctrl+alt+enter).
This will replace each instance of any non-whitespace character in the selection with a space character.
If you don't want to preserve the types of whitespace characters (Ex. keeping tab characters as tab characters), just put "." in the find input field instead of "[^\s]".
You can use the extension Regex Text Generator
Add this to your settings.json
"regexTextGen.predefined": {
"Replace with spaces": {
"originalTextRegex": "(?g)(.)",
"generatorRegex": " {S}"
}
}
Select the text you want to replace, multi cursor is supported.
Execute command: Generate text based on Regular Expression (regex)
Select the predefined: Replace with spaces
Press Enter 2 times.
You are able to preview the replacement and Escape if needed when you are allowed to edit the generator expression.
You can create a key binding for this if you need to do it a lot. See the extension page for an example.
In a snake_cased language, I would want to navigate variablewise and not word_wise and also exclude sigils like #, % or / from these stops.
Example:
|$here_she_goes_again; #the pipe marks my cursor position
With one Ctrl+Right, I want to land on the space before the semicolon,
$here_she_goes_again|; #the pipe marks my cursor position
then, with a Ctrl+Left, I want to return to the beginning of the line.
|$here_she_goes_again; #the pipe marks my cursor position
Somebody got this to work?
Put this into your settings.json:
"[javascript]": {
"editor.wordSeparators": "`~!##%^&*()-=+[{]}\|;:'",.<>/?"
}
Use whatever your language identifier is. I deleted the $ from the default separators to get your example to work for javascript. You can remove the other characters you indicated. The underscore was already not in the default for me. Just make sure those characters are not in the language-specific setting shown above.
You can use the extension Select By and the command moveby.regex
You are able to define a regex to search and bind this to Ctrl+Left and another to Ctrl+Right
In the key binding you can limit this to a particular languageID.
I'm trying to search for specific word strings or text in VSCode by using double quotes. I trying to find for example occurrences of "Video" without seeing "video library" occurrences. Any suggestions?
Ctrl+F
Turn on regular expression search (marked with red arrow)
You see in the screesnshot it matches exactly 'video' keyword
If you want case sensitivity, then turn on the arrow mark button
You have to toggle (enable) both "Match Case" and "Match Whole Word".
"Match Whole Word" will only search for exact matches and by matching case, you should be achieve your goal.
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I installed JD-GUI to retrieve my code from a jar file. Everything works fine, except JD-GUI automatically adds annoying comments like this:
Any way I can remove them? I don't understand regex.
Using Eclipse:
Go to Edit > Find/Replace...
Use this regular expression in the Find box: ^/\* [0-9 ]{3} \*/
^ match start of line.
/\* match start of comment
[0-9 ]{3} match exactly three digits/spaces
\*/ match end of comment
Make sure the Replace box is empty.
Make sure the Regular expressions checkbox is selected.
Click Replace All
Use CTRL+H. Within "File Search" > "Search string", check "Regular expression" and use one of the regex given by the other answers.
Then use "Replace..." to replace them all with nothing.
Use the utility sed to search for a regex and replace with an empty string. Here is a gist that should get you started with using it.
Since you don't understand regex, I'll help you out with it: /^\/\* \d+ \*\//gm will find every comment block that starts at the beginning of a line and contains a line number.
Here's how it works:
/ is the start of the regex
^ matches the begnning of the line
\/\* finds the opening /* of the comment
(space) finds the space before the line number
\d+ finds any number of digits
(space) finds the space after the line number
\*\/ finds the ending */ of the comment
/gm ends the regex and flags this as a global, multiline search
I have a Word document with fields of the reference variety, which occur in the form "[field].[field]"--in other words, there's a period between the two fields. I want to globally replace this with a space.
Word offers the ^d special character to search for fields, but for some reason the query "^d.^d" does not find anything. However, ".^d" does. Now comes the problem, however--what do I specify as the replacement text in order to retain the field code? If using regular expressions, I could use a "Find What Expression" such as \1, but with regexp ("wild card") mode the ^d is not permitted.
I guess I could write a macro...
I would like to add to Bibadia's solution.
An example of an index entry field; we want to change a name we misspelled.
Make sure hidden formatting is displayed (toggle with SHIFT+CTRL+F8).
Make sure wildcards option is not selected. To search for fields, use the opening and closing field braces code (optionally use ^w for spaces, as Bibadia suggested):^19 XE "Deo, John" ^21
Replace won't recognize field braces character, but will allow to insert the clipboard's content. ;). To do that, insert in text the correct entry. CTRL+F9 to insert field and type:XE "Doe, John"
Select the field above and copy
Use ^c in the replace box
Hit Replace All
Ta-da!
It's usually better to go the macro route when finding fields because, as you say, the find algorithm that Word uses doesn't work the way you might hope with fields.
But if you know exactly what the fields contain, you can specify a search pattern that will probably work (however not in wildcard mode).
For example, if you want to look for figure number field pairs such as
{ STYLEREF 1 \s }.{ SEQ Figure \* ARABIC \s 1 }
(which would typically be the same set of fields everywhere in the document)
If you only really need to look for the following:
{ STYLEREF 1 \s }.<any field>
you could ensure that field codes are displayed and search for
^d STYLEREF 1 \s ^21.^d
or
^19 STYLEREF 1 \s ^21.^19
If you need to be more precise, you can spell out the second field as well.
"^d" only works for finding the field beginning, not the field end.
It's a shame that ^w wants to find at least 1 whitespace character because otherwise it would be more robust to look for
^19^wSTYLEREF^w1^w\s^w^21.^19
Perhaps someone else knows how to work around that without using wildcards?
Torzaburo,
I suggest that you do this using a macro. You can start by recording the macro, and later refining your processing steps within the macro.
First turn on the hidden characters by navigating to Home > Paragraph > toggle the show/hide Paragraph symbol. Also, select all and toggle the field codes on (right-click and select "Toggle Field Codes".
Open a new blank Word doc in addition to the one you have open. You will use this later. Start the macro recording and find the field using the "^d" (field code) as you said.
When the field is found, copy only the field text within the brackets, and not the full field reference. While the macro is still recording, ALT + TAB to the new blank document and paste the field code in as plain text.
At this point, do the necessary find & replace processing to the field codes. Highlight the processed field codes, copy, ALT + TAB back to the original document, and paste back between the { } brackets.
Stop the macro recording. Add any further custom processing to the macro VBA.
Select-All and re-toggle the field codes. Update the field codes.
You don't need a macro. Just toggle all field codes on by using Alt+F9. Then do a find and replace for what you want to change. Once the replacement is complete, use Alt+F9 again to toggle the field codes back off.
Disclaimer: I didn't originate this solution, but it's clean and elegant and I thought it should be included here:
(Adapted from Search & Replace Field Codes in Word):
Create or find a single instance of the field you want to convert text to
Toggle Field Codes visible (AltF9)
Copy the code for the field you want to use to the Clipboard (highlight and CtrlC)
Open the Replace dialog box (CtrlH), insert the text you want to replace in the Find What box and then enter ^c in the Replace With box.
This will replace your text with the contents of the Clipboard, turning it into the field code you copied in step 3. It also copies formatting information (font, color, etc.), to control how the field will appear when hidden. (Caveat: I've tested this with Word 2003 under Windows 7 only.)
Coming in late on this, probably way too late for Beth (sorry Beth). And this may not be quite what Beth was looking for. But for anyone interested ...
It sounds like Beth may have created captions throughout the document using INSERT CAPTION (hence the presence of field codes). This means these captions will have been (automatically) created in CAPTION style.
To globally replace the separator "." with " " (space) in such captions, take two steps:
[1] Go to REFERENCES | INSERT CAPTION, then click on NUMBERING and replace the SEPARATOR "." with "EM-DASH". This will replace all separators in captions for the selected label in the CAPTION Window. If you have other labels in use in the document (e.g. FIGURE), select the other labels one by one and repeat this process.
[2] Do a find/replace searching for special character "em-dash" (^+) in style CAPTION, replacing with " ". Click REPLACE ALL.
Voila!
NOTE: This presumes that em-dash does not appear in the caption text anywhere. If it does, then you'll need to do a pre- and post- "fiddle" to ensure these em-dashes are not touched by the global replace above.
The "pre-fiddle" is to do a global find/replace across captions, replacing the em-dash ("^+") with some other string (e.g. "EM-DASH") that doesn't ever occur in any caption's text. Then you do the separator change as described above. Finally, the "post-fiddle" is to restore the em-dashes that were in the captions, by doing a global replace of the string "EM-DASH" with the actual em-dash character "^+".