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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hi,

Complex search and replace should change sometimes soon.

For the impatient, try the Scheme commands '(open-search)'
and '(open-replace)' (e.g. after doing M-X).
We still have to implement an adequate footer widget
instead of a popup window which clobbers the main window.

Best wishes, --Joris


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:41:54PM +0100, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> I just discovered that TeXmacs can actually do search and replace of 
> complex structures, like
> parts of formulas, or text with certain properties 
> (look in the documentation of search and replace.. basically you select 
> one, do "edit->copy to search", select the other, do "edit->copy to 
> replace", and then do the search with empty strings. A bit of a hack.)
> 
> What is strange is that this hack works differently when you are in "edit 
> source tree" mode and in regular mode.
> It is obvious that in edit source tree mode, you can be much more precise 
> in telling exactly what you want to search, and exactly what you want to 
> replace. So, if you have these formulas in a document:
> x^2
> x^3
> 1+f(x^2)+x^2
> 
> you can select the x^2 and replace all occurrences with x^3.
> But what is strange is that if you do all the selection in source tree 
> mode, and then switch to non-source tree mode, suddenly nothing is found. 
> Switch back to source tree mode, and things are found again.
> 
> 
> Another thing I found is that selected regions are not preserved between 
> source tree and non-source tree mode.
> When you switch between them, strange things happen with the selection.
> 
> Michael