Feature Request: Search and Replace using RegEx

[alinanorakari]

Hello there,

I really like Boop, it's my new favorite tool to quickly manipulate text based data. Sometimes I need to search and replace parts of the pasted text based on a regular expression. It would be awesome if I didn't have to use one of my other editors to accomplish this, when I'd like to perform the rest of the operations in Boop.

Please register this as a vote for a better search and replace function that understands RegEx. A solution to this could also be the ability to create this as a plugin, but as far as I can tell a plugin can only have one input (the selected or full text)

[IvanMathy]

Hey there!

Thanks for the suggestion, that makes a lot of sense to me. The short answer is: I'd love to have it, but short term I don't know how. I'm guessing I would have to roll out a custom searchbox (currently I'm using the built in macOS one)...

[quanganhdo]

Second this 👍

[nickdos]

I had a similar issue, wanting to replace commas with newlines and was trying to paste \n (thinking a regex is what I needed) but I just got the literal text being replaced. I came across this answer on Apple StackExchange that allows special characters via ⌃ CTRL+⌥ ALT+⌘ CMD+P combo.