Re: search and replace problems

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:59:58 -0800
Tom Cloyd <emdrportal@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> I continue to have serious problems with search and replace in HTML 
> source files. Basically, I simply can't get it to work reliably. Yes, 
> edit mode is on when this happens. I wish that were the problem (no edit 
> mode) but it isn't.
> 
> I just tried to find all instances of ">tool<" and do either a replace 
> on request or an automatic replace, "in the whole document", such that 
> the string becomes ">page tools<". There were at least four instances of 
>    the search string in the file, but Amaya told me it couldn't find any.

Due to the coloration, the searched text is within 3 different elements ">" 
"tool" and "<". To be able to do that we need to change radically the search 
algorithm. One other solution would be to remove the coloration on request.

> I've had this happen so many times that I simply give up doing this 
> function in source code editing with Amaya. My text editor (jEdit) does 
> this fine. I use Amaya for text composition, and leave source code alone.
> 
> I don't really want to have this restriction. Any suggestions as to what 
> I'm doing wrong?
> 
> I'm using Amaya 8.3 on a Win-XP OS.
> 
> t.
> 
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> Tom Cloyd, M.S., M.A., L.M.H.C
> Psychotherapist in private practice
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> 


     Irene.
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