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Using escape characters in GExperts Grep replace – twm’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/12

Reminder to self: check out the the support for proper escaping special characters (like \t, \r, \n or x20 for tab, carriage-return, line-feed or space) in GExperts [WayBack] Using escape characters in GExperts Grep replace – twm’s blog

Solves:

Via: [WayBack] If you enable regular expressions in the GExperts Grep search form, you can search for escape sequences like \t which is expanded to a tab character or … – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

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GExperts: searching for case-insensitive “T*List.Create” but not “TStringList.Create”

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/02

Just learned that partial exclusion can be done with the case-insensitive GExperts Grep Search like this:

T[^s][^t][^r][^i][^n][^g].*List.*\.Create

This will skip TStringList.Create, but matches TMyList.Create.

I’d rather have done something like this, but the Delphi RegEx does not support negative lookbehind:

^ *[a-zA-Z0-9_]* *: *T(<!string)[a-zA-Z0-9_]*ListO? *;$

So the alternative is to search for this:

^ *[a-zA-Z0-9_]* *: *T[a-zA-Z0-9_]*ListO? *;$

then exclude all the case insensitive TStringList entries from it, however GExperts did not support that at the time of writing.

This is an intermediate that works for some of the times:

^ *[a-zA-Z0-9_]* *: *T[^s][^t][^r][^i][^n][^g][a-zA-Z0-9_]*ListO? *;$

–jeroen

^ *[a-zA-Z0-9_]* *: *T[^s][^t][^r][^i][^n][^g][a-zA-Z0-9_]*ListO? *$;
^ *[a-zA-Z0-9_]*: .T[a-zA-Z0-9_]*ListO? *;$;
^ *[a-zA-Z0-9_]* *: *T(?!string)[a-zA-Z0-9_]*ListO? *;$

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Thomas Mueller has started to write some documentation on the internal workings of GExperts…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/26

From a while ago, for my link archive:

[WayBack] I have started to write some documentation on the internal workings of GExperts. For now, it covers only a very small part of the IDE form enhancement… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

Back then, this was done:

–jeroen

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Need to revisit: Grep search crashes with `Invalid class typecast.` · Issue #1 · jpluimers/GExperts · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/29

One day I need to resivit [WayBack] Grep search crashes with Invalid class typecast. · Issue #1 · jpluimers/GExperts · GitHub.

The reason is that I want to be able to:

  • bind shortcut keys for deleting entries in the list of grep searches
  • performing a search while watching the results of a different one

Via [WayBack] Small initial fix for a race condition https://github.com/jpluimers/GExperts/issues/1 in commit https://github.com/jpluimers/GExperts/commit/bcc365911ab… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

–jeroen

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GExperts “Set Component Properties”

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/17

I totally forgot about [Archive.is] GExperts Help: Set Component Properties

The main reason is that I hardly use any live connections in Delphi applications any more for mainly two reasons:

  • timing issues (varying from taking way too long to open something, via order what needs to be opened different between run-time and design-time, to )
  • pushing business logic further away from the user interface so it is easier to automatically test the business logic

But once every while I’m on a new site that has their own tool-chain installed and I see screens like this one:

I’m not alone on this: [WayBack] Does anybody know where the following dialog window come from? I need to disable it but failed to find the source IDE plugin – Edwin Yip – Google+

The good thing is that it can bring certain components into a know state before compiling your application.

But this is a thing your CI environment should already do for you.

–jeroen

 

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