ISN AutoIt Studio - English

ctrl + shift + d does insert the selected text in a messageBox for debugging. This is alreadz possible in the ISN.

But i guess you mean something different...

Yes sorry, if you open scite you will see what I mean.

lets say you have this code:

$fruit = "carrot"
$fruit = "potato"
$fruit = "pumpkin"

and you want to change the variable fruit, you can double click on the first $fruit in Scite, then press ctrl+shift+d and it will select the second $fruit, then again for the third $fruit. You can then start typing and it will be typing on 3 lines at once.

You can do similar in ISN by holding the control key, so it isn't essential.

If this isn't possible, then perhaps just adding a replace in selection button to the search screen would be useful.

 

Hmm..does not work in my Scite. With ctrl+shift+d it insertes the debug messagebox.

But as you already said, you can to similar with the ISN.
By holding the crtl key, you can select multiple stuff at once. OR
By holding the alt key, you can drag a selection over multiple lines an rewrite them easily. (This would be perfect for you example)

Didn't know about that alt feature, it is Ace!

The SciTE feature I am talking about is called Selection Add Next
It can be found in the search menu
perhaps it will work for you if you open another file type (like a text file)
then you can experience it. It is very useful, because it is keyboard only based,
you can really quickly select and replace multiples of the same word.

I turned off the selected text in messagebox feature from my tools menu as I don't really use it...
 

Kind Regards, Dan

How about if you implemented it like this?

when you have text selected

hold alt + (up or down) to select the next match in that direction.

it would select both (same as if you selected one then held control and selected a second)

you could hold alt and press down, down down... to select 2, 3, 4 matches, then press up to unselect them.

If you look at the screenshot you can see why this would be useful (in the screenshot I want to change the "$i" to "$i + 1")

 

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Sry for the late answer. Good idea with alt + Up/Down. This feature will be included with the next update version 1.09 ;) ;)