On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Jacob Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be nice to have a search & replace within math mode.
> It could work document wide or only in currently focused math-box.
LyX has this. It's called "Advanced Find". You can access it through
the edit menu or with ctrl + shift + F.
> It would allow you to search and replace via latex commands,
> for instance, search ^{2} and replace with _{2}.
>
> Maybe the search box itself could have a math-editor so that you don't
> have to enter latex.
>
> Can be nice if suddenly in the middle of a calculation you decide you want
> to go with another convention for notation.
>
> So far the way I do this is by editing the lyx source file with vim,
>
> so it cannot be _too_ hard..
Actually it's quite hard, from what I understand.
Best,
Scott
