Search/Replace capabilities of KATE 22.12.3

[Richard Owlett]

On 2/7/25 2:51 AM, Rens Oliemans wrote:
> Richard Owlett <rowlett at access.net> writes:
> 
>>>> I wish to write macros using ERE's[1] to make my project feasible.
>>>
>>> This is not possible:
>>
>> Clarification:
>> I'm unsure of explicitly "This" refers to.
>> ...
>> I was referring to the general concept of an ERE, not an implementation.
> 
> Ah I'm sorry, rereading my email shows that it was a bit unclear on some parts.
> I meant that the exact ERE syntax of sed that you linked to is not necessarily
> possible. In general, the regex of KATE is quite powerful, so if you want some
> form of extended regexps, I think that you're good.
> 
>>> [0] https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/regex-patterns.html
>>> [1] https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727
>>          ^
>>          +--- *????* my post was:
>>          https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/ERE-syntax.html
> 
> My search/replace example was about this book, but I forgot to add that.
> 
>> You've given me a homework assignment.
> 
> KATE's regexp syntax is very similar to others, so I think that if you find a
> good body of documentation for regexps, you can probably extend it quite easily
> to KATE.
> 
> Alternatively, feel free to give a couple of examples of what you want replaced,
> if you want to have some more examples.
> 

I was planning that. I'm restarting my project after a hardware 
triggered interruption. Your previous post and a re-read of 
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/27901/match-one-part-of-a-regular-expression-in-a-kwrite-find-and-replace-regex 
suggests a solution to a separate personal project.

The above link says in part:>
> Try:
> 
> Find: ([a-z])[0-9]
> Replace: \1
> 
> Parenthesis save content matched and can be used with expression \<number> depending of how many parenthesis used in the Find expression and its order from the beginning.
> 
> For example, if you wanted to change order between the letter and the number, would be:
> 
> Find: ([a-z])([0-9])
> Replace: \2\1
> 

Raises the question:
    "In a KATE macro, instead of doing a "Replace:" operation could
     there be an "append to a different file" operation be performed"?

Back to the manual ;}

*BTW*
Do you realize your posts do not appear in the archives at
   https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde/2025-February/thread.html
????

Thanks again for your guidance.