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Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wikisource/Repair search and replace in Page editing

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Repair search and replace in Page editing

  • Problem: Actually, "Search and replace", as provided by the code Editor (top left option in the advanced editing tab), just doesn't work when using it at "Page" namespace.

This is the basic tool to... search and replace text when editing, mass correct OCR mistakes, etc. It is simply not working.

Discussion

  • Extending the proposal: This would profit all Wiki-Projects.
    • I would suggest something more general: when I use Search and replace, I cannot go a step backwards anymore, in case my replace (or more importantly something before) was wrong. This is a general problem with the text-editor. Every time I use any of the already existing buttons (like Bold, or math or what so ever), I cannot do this step backwards. So, if I' m editing for sometime and then do something wrong and then use one of these buttons (or search and replace), I must do the whole work from the beginning, because I cannot go back to the mistake that I did before using one of these buttons. This is not the case with the visual editor, so, I think, it would be possible to change this in the texteditor rather easily.
    • There are only two options in search and replace: you can either replace one after the other, or the whole text. I would be really grateful if I could use search and replace only in a marked text (and not the whole one)Yomomo (talk) 22:24, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • About Search and replace. If I want to replace something with more lines, the new-line-mark will not be included. I don't know how difficult it is to change this, but it would be a profit to be able to replace parts also when they (and the new part) have more lines. Yomomo (talk) 14:52, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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