On 21/08/14 22:45, Jacob Shapiro 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.
>
> 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.
you captured exactly the original motivations that led to the birth of Advanced
Find and Replace ;-)!
Please, have a look at:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Advsearch
and let us know whether you find anything else that you feel like missing.
Also, there's a number of known problems of the current implementation, some of
which show up as part of:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&description=~&reporter=~&component=search&summary=~&col=id&col=summary&col=reporter&col=status&col=type&col=severity&col=keywords&desc=1&order=id
If you see further problems that are NOT on our Trac bug tracking system,
please, post your own enhancements or bug-fixing request.
There's been a couple of attempts of having a GSoC for enhancing the feature
http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas
http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014
but these projects have not been selected thus far.
Should you have coding skills, then you're very welcome to join and try to
improve this feature, as well as others ;-)!
Thanks,
Tommaso
