2011-01-31

concurrent search and replace

1.16: adde/search and replace:
. a concurrent search and replace (s&r)
takes a tab-tab-enter list of targets and replacements,
this way user doesn't have to worry about
ordering multiple s&r's in the case where
one replacement might contain the target of another
ie, you want only original content to be replaced,
not anything put there by the
current list of replacements .
. this can also apply session-wide:
the s&r dialog would show all your previous s&r's
and show what's been morph'd during this session .
. there's 3 classes of text to apply changes to:
{ original, s&r-morph'd, new text }.

. what if a list of searches is given
and one target is a substring of the other?
warn user you'll be doing search of largest first,
[don't warn about this again] is default true ...

1.26: eg, if I can have the s&r set:
phil -> philosophy
philip -> philosopher;
and then what it should do is check for both targets
and case:
# no match? move on;
# only one match? apply map;
# both match? apply superstring's map .

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