Elves: Find/Replace
Find/Replace
Since 4.5 I think I've made this request every version so it's tradition.
Right now I have to copy a whole patch, paste it into textedit Find/Replace and copy it back.
In those cases (and multiple files, too), I just edit the JSON files directly. Multifile search and replace in Text Wrangler is a godsend....
Oh nice! Another reason to be thankful I didn't update to high sierra.
If you're referring to TextWrangler not working on High Sierra, TextWrangler is actually discontinued now, but its big sister BBEdit now has a free mode that is basically the same thing — with actually a few more capabilities. I use it all the time on High Sierra for things just like this.
I agree that its multi-file regular expression and wildcard search capabilities along with file compare, line processing and prefixing, etc are simply awesome. I use it any time I have to do text file manipulation rather than strictly coding.
BUT --- I too would love to see find and replace in Max 8. Would not require closing patch and losing state. Of course some care would have to be taken (eg renaming abstractions improperly could cause them to lose their reference/internal state, etc) but maybe C'74 could give us the ability to filter which types of text in which type of objects would be replaced? now that would be power.
Another improvement would be for the normal find function to also search through text in attributes, like the list of items in a umenu - so I could, say, find any umenu that has the item "ice cream" in it.