[Kbabel] Find/Replace in Catalog Manager

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Marco Wegner wrote:

> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Marco Wegner wrote:
> > > > Since the cons are serious for users, I'd like to hear your opinions.
> > > > Otherwise I would like to go for the change and maybe try to optimize
> > > > the standard load method.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure I understand you correctly but IMHO every file type would
> > > need its own search/replace methods in Catalog Manager (perhaps as
> > > plugins). For instance searching and replacing does not work for PO
> > > files in the header or the comments. Similar things would apply when
> > > replacing in DocBook: it is necessary to leave the tags untouched
> > > because this could break the integrity of the file.
> >
> > It is not true if we use the method of Catalog (used by KBabel). ATM the
> > reading in Catalog Manager is reimplemented just to speed it up.
> >
> > Generally, if the search text is found in a file, the file is sent to
> > KBabel to open it and to do find/replace in that file.
> 
> Seems like I still have to learn a great lot about the KBabel code. Perhaps I 
> should have looked at it more closely before complaining ;-)

The point is that I don't like the solution using two different code 
paths.

Stanislav