Wish List: Find and Replace

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1

It would be really great if the Find list in OO iPad allowed the standard Find and Replace type selection - not asking for regular expressions and all that, just Find ‘this’ and Replace with ‘that’.

Copy lines and paste them in the document again would also be good whilst I am at it.

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3

Simple ‘Find and Replace’ would be a real productivity boost, but Regular Expressions would be nice too (later)…

4

I don’t think this has made it into OO3.

5

Hmm, I wonder if a plugin could provide this?

6

Here’s some code that that will go a global search and replace of some topic text:

function replace(regexp, replacement){
    rootItem.apply(function(item){
        item.topic = item.topic.replace(regexp, replacement);
})
}
replace('xxx','yyy');

Now I need to find out how to throw up a prompt for the text.

7

Well here’s a workflow that prompts for a search regular expression and replacement text and fires it at OmniOutliner. It’s pretty fragile, the regexp has to be valid and can’t mess up the JavaScript string variable.

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This little piece of script solves my problem. Thanks a ton!