JEdit, powerful search and replace using BeanShell
JEdit is my favorite text editor. And today I was pleased to find some powerful scripting capability in its search and replace functionality. Basically I wanted to enclose a RegularExpression pattern with:
<a href="">PATTERN</a>
The Search and Replace dialog provided an option Return value of a BeanShell snippet. So whatever RegularExpression pattern grouping I provided, I was able to access them using the BeanShell variable _1 to _9. So my final replace statement became:
"<a href\"\">" + _1 + "</a>"
Cool solution to a simple problem.
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$1 is simpler. You don’t have to use escape characters.
Ino
8 Jan 10 at 11:02 am
I think $1 doesn’t work when “Return value from beanshell” is checked, _1 is the only way.
matt
19 Jan 11 at 9:24 pm