find within selection

Posted May 5, 2008 by jmck

I think I'm going to tend to do a lot of pasting in from emails, as a lot of tasks come in that way.... given that things like colons and dashes mean something special in taskpaper, I envision having to do a lot of text munging to these emails. So, it'd be great if I could do a "Find within selection only" -- to more easily strip or replace special characters only from within the email I just pasted in.

jesse - May 5, 2008 8:30 PM

It's a little tricky to do this well, because apple's find panel is implementation is hidden. I could re-implement that all myself... but I'd like to avoid that for now. In the meantime (for the next release) I've added the command that you want as a menu item:

Edit > Find > Replace all in Selection

Along with the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-A.

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