This dialog box appears when you type Ctrl+H, press the
button when
available in the toolbar, open the
Edit / Replace...menu or click Replace>> in the
Find dialog box. It makes it possible for you to search for and
replace specified text in the current text file or in a folder
view.
Reuse one of the last 16 searched strings by selecting it
from the
Find drop-down list, or type a new string or
expression to find in the
Find field and click on the
Find button to move the cursor on the next
occurrence of the string.
Enter the text to replace with in the
Replace field, or open the drop-down list
to select one of the last 16 items entered. Click on
the
Replace button to move the cursor to the next
occurence of the found string, which is automatically replaced.
A message box will inform you that no more occurrence is
found.
In addition to the
Find box
fields. The Replace dialog box adds some actions:
Replace All replaces all matches from a
search.
In folders, the
Replace and
Replace All actions rename files or folders,
they are enabled only when matching regular expressions. Indeed
you can specify subparts of the path which you want to keep
(with parentheses) in a regular expression, and then
reuse them in the new name, following the ECMAScript standard
replacement strings (see String.replace in ECMA262.pdf). For
example: find: (*.)\.gif replace: $1.bmp replaces the extension
of all GIF files to BMP. When regular expressions are enabled,
the helper button to the right of the Replace field list usual
special replacement texts.
You can undo the
whole "
Replace All" action with the
Undo (Ctrl+Z) menu item in text files.
In a
Folder Comparison document, the Find and Mark functions do
not browse items marked as hidden (corresponding to a filter by
name/status/date or hidden manually) even if displayed on
screen.
Press
F1 or click on the
Help button while in this dialog box will show
this topic.