ColdFusion Builder Extension: Regular Expression Find And Replace

Posted December 3, 2009 at 10:26 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion

I know that ColdFusion Builder and the Eclipse platform already have regular-expression-based find and replace support; but, coming from the HomeSite world, I know what it's like to have really usable find and replace support (oh snap! buuuuurrrn!). As such, I figured I would try to extend the built-in find and replace functionality with ColdFusion Builder's ColdFusion-based extension mechanism. Working on it last night and this morning, here is what I came up with. It only works with one file at a time (no extended find/replace yet), but the interface is much more reminiscent of HomeSite.


  
  
  

 
ColdFusion Builder Extension: Regular Expression Find And Replace Video Preview.  
 
  
  

There's too much code involved to show it in this blog post, so I have created a ColdFusion Builder Extension: RegEx Find And Replace project in my projects area. I already have a number of ideas that I want to add to this; but, if you have anything you'd like to see me add, please leave a comment below.



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Dan Vega
Dec 3, 2009 at 1:01 PM // reply »
45 Comments
167 Points

Awesome stuff Ben! ColdFusion builder is going to make my favorite IDE event better! I am loving the extensions that have already come out and excited to see what talented people like yourself come up with!


Ben Nadel
Dec 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM // reply »
10,640 Comments
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@Dan,

Yeah, the extension stuff is exciting. I have to admit, this is the first time that I personally felt the real excitement. I played around with some other stuff, but it more just felt like "fun" things; this is the first time I truly felt like I was *extending* the platform itself - I was way pumped up.


Dan Vega
Dec 3, 2009 at 2:20 PM // reply »
45 Comments
167 Points

Its no Ben Nadel Code Converter but it will do!


Ben Nadel
Dec 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM // reply »
10,640 Comments
69,065 Points

@Dan,

Ha ha ha ha :)


Gareth Arch
Dec 3, 2009 at 11:59 PM // reply »
110 Comments
480 Points

That is *really* cool. I still haven't played around at all with CF Builder, but all of the neat little extras are certainly making me more interested in trying it out.


Jayesh Viradiya
Dec 4, 2009 at 12:23 AM // reply »
1 Comments
10 Points

Really cool stuff!!


Budd Wright
Dec 4, 2009 at 1:09 AM // reply »
2 Comments
22 Points

Very cool, Ben! Very Homesite+ ish! ;)


Ben Nadel
Dec 4, 2009 at 8:04 AM // reply »
10,640 Comments
69,065 Points

Thanks guys. Some more thoughts I had about adding to this:

* Baked-in "common use" regular expressions like:
-- Find all tags.
-- Find all tags with given name.
-- Find email addresses.

I don't know how useful that would be. BUT, to build on top of that idea, being able to save your regex patterns with names would be badass (so that they can be pulled up quickly later, say from a drop down or a modal window).

* Other non-regex functionality like being able to UPPER or lower case the matched pattern.


Dale Severin
Dec 17, 2009 at 4:56 PM // reply »
1 Comments
12 Points

Thanks for this extension and especially for the video explaining it.


Ben Nadel
Jan 5, 2010 at 9:25 AM // reply »
10,640 Comments
69,065 Points

@Dale,

My pleasure.


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