Find and replace with word boundaries and case matching

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In case this hasn’t been asked. It’d be nice if we could indicate testing for word boundaries (and since I’m here matching case) for the find and replace.

I just did a replace from screen to form and updated screenshot to formshot which isn’t what I intended.

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I just found the ignore case option… And I grabbed a copy of Bear to see what might be possible and see that it doesn’t seem to have a word boundary option either. Sooo, I’ll manage my expectations. :slight_smile:

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Just add a space in the find part

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A space is a word boundary. But so are a lot of other characters.

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Some workarounds until Lettara includes more search/replace patterns:

  1. Open .md file in Apple TextEdit and do search and replace there. It has a lot of options for patterns:

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  1. Or use free version BBEdit, it also has powerful RegEx search and replace.

I would also very much request that Lettera adds TextEdit-like search/replace patterns in future betas and final release.

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I use BBEdit daily. Asking for an “Open in Editor…” command would be rude. :slight_smile: But, yes, that’s a workaround.

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