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I am moderator on a site with lots of structured content and regularly edit posts for poor formatting (in particular Markdown and LaTeX). Many of those tasks are tedious and could easily be performed by a search & replace function which, sadly, my browser of choice Firefox lacks.
I could not find a suitable plugin (although I admittedly did not check all >900 results) which is surprising; this seems to easy and useful a feature to not have a plugin!
Copying posts into a text editor is a nice workaround in some cases, but not in all. Some text editors don't have search ^ replace (e.g. gedit
, default editor for many GTK based Linux distributions), and I might not be able to install one on every machine I use SE on (university, friends, ...).
Is there a way to bring search & replace to Firefox, preferably with regexp support?
My OS is GNU/Linux, more specifically Ubuntu.
Note:
– tanius – 2015-07-01T06:36:42.757gedit
got Search & Replace in the meantime [ see ].1
Copy-paste into an editor is what I do. There's It's all text to make this more automated.
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2012-08-18T19:26:24.633@Gilles Interesting. Does it pull the result back, too? – Raphael – 2012-08-18T19:44:44.687
1It creates a temporary file and synchronizes back and forth every few seconds. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2012-08-18T19:50:03.143
@Gilles I think that's worth an answer as an editor might provide extra comfort (for settings where a good editor is available). – Raphael – 2012-08-18T20:05:13.903
I was going to, but you explicitly requested a solution that doesn't use an external text editor. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2012-08-18T20:15:36.533