Awesome. Thanks. Are you as lazy as the noob who just says “help”? Probably not.
Good idea to put it in the startup.py.

Hi, @shadowfire-omega and All,

Hope you don’t mind my late reply ! So, given the 8 lines "aAppraise|0|Appraise "+Appraise+"/"eval(+mAppraise+)" "+cAppraise+", which end, each, with a word, after the = separator sign

and the regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-is)Appraise(?=.+=(.+))|=.+

REPLACE ?1\1

First, the (?-is) forces the regex search to be sensitive ( non-insensitive !) to the case and the dot . regex character to represents any single standard character and not an End of Line character

Then it matches any of the two alternatives, giving priority to the first one

The regex (?-is)Appraise(?=.+=(.+))

The regex =.+

If the first alternative is chosen, it, then, matches the Appraise string but only if the look-ahead feature is verified. That is to say if there is, further on, in the same line, a = sign, followed by some standard characters, which ends the current line. As this condition is, by construction, always true, the part after the = sign is, thus, stored as group 1

As soon as the = location is reached, by the regex engine, no more = sign can be found, afterwards. So, the first alternative cannot be matched, anymore, in current line !

But, now, the second alternative =.+ matches all the end of line, beginning with the = sign

In replacement, ?1\1 is a conditional structure, which means :

If group 1 exists, we replace the string Appraise with the contents of group 1

If group 1 does not exist, we do not rewrite anything. So, the range of characters beginning with the = sign till the end of current line, is deleted

Et voilà !

Cheers

guy038

Hi, @terry-r and All,

A very simplified version of my regex (?-s)^(.+ by ).+\[only as by (.+)\], could be :

^.+ by .+[only as by .+] ( BEWARE : This syntax is not functional, it’s just for explanations !)

As the syntax .+* stands for the longest range of standard characters which can match the remaining part of the regex :

Then, this regex searches, from beginning of line, for :

Any non-null range of standard characters, followed with the string by surrounded by two space characters

Then, followed with a second non-null range of standard characters, followed with the string [only as by, followed with a space

And, finally, with a third non-null range of standard characters, followed with the ] symbol, ending the line

Don’t be afraid to ask the community if you feel some difficulties, when elaborating some advanced regexes !

On the other hand, you’ll get some regex documentation here

@mkupper

Not sure about all of the info you provided but…

What is your setting for this redboxed option…there may be a clue in the blue underlining…? :

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I’ve noticed the same problem as Loren describes, except for me the position is not set all the way back to the top of the file, it’s set only a few lines up from the cursor position. The cursor will be off screen (below). The left/right key workaround works, but it’s not really what we want.

I should note that this is a recent issue, I haven’t noticed it in previous versions. Let’s hope it’s easy enough to fix. Thanks!