I have some JavaScript code which I want to make more readable. However, due to the amount of code I want to use a tool which does this automatically for me.
Are there such tools already available or do I have to manually perform some "find/replace-alls"?
The code which I want to convert is written on a single line without spaces.
Quick search found http://jsbeautifier.org/ which seems to do what you are looking for online.
Search terms: javascript beautifier
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I need to do a lot of search/replace across 50+ files, and am using Sublime Text 3.
Is there a way to step through and interactively confirm each change? I dont't want a blanket Replace All action that just performs all replacements.
I am thinking way back to vi/vim with its %s/old/new/gc functionality.
Both the Find/Replace and Find in Files/Replace commands don't natively support prompting you if the replacement should happen. Regular in-buffer find/replace just replaces directly and the only confirmation that you can get is when you do a Find in Files and Sublime prompts you to confirm the replacement after telling you how many replacements will be made.
As such, the only way to get something like this is to look to an external plugin/package that would do it's own find and replace option so that you could be asked to confirm the changes.
I'm not personally aware of any packages that would do this, but a search in Package Control turns up the RegReplace package, which lists among its features:
Create commands that highlight results and requiring confirmation before replacing.
That said I've never used the package myself, and from briefly looking at the documentation site it seems like it's only capable of searching in the current document and not across files.
A potential workaround would be to use the native Find in Files to find all files with matches, then manually open them and use RegReplace to perform the same operation again.
I have some documentation strings embedded within the source code (C/C++ files) as XML tags and I'd like to know what's the most minimal solution to make vim autoclose the tags (closest matching tag).
I've found closetag.vim but is there away to do this neatly without modifying anything but the .vimrc file?
Vim has no built-in support for that, so the closetag.vim plugin is the proper and easiest solution. (I use it myself, too!) Of course, you can develop your own simple mappings (that search backwards for an open tag, get that, drop the attributes, add the slash, and insert that), but:
that will either be very simplistic and therefore often wrong
or ends up with as much complexity as closetag, becoming a reimplementation of that plugin
If some rather strange restrictions (e.g. a custom primitive sync across systems) only allow you to manipulate the ~/.vimrc itself, you could just append the entire plugin's code to it (though I'd recommend against such an ugly hack).
I use the Eclipse CDT for C development and I automate many mundance tasks using regexes. I have built up a set of quite complicated regexes that I use a lot which I have ended up keeping in a text file. Every time I want to use one of my commonly used regexes I have to copy the find and replace expressions into the find/replace dialog fields (separately) before using it. This can be very time consuming. Does anyone know of a plugin which would allow me to store and select from named fjnd/replace favourites that I can then apply to code in the editor?
The "Find" and "Replace" dialogs have a memory. If you use a regex, it is saved in this memory and you can select it later using the drop-down menu in each of "Find" and "Replace".
Besides from this, I don't think there's a plugin to do what you want to do...
I have a huge HTML file which I'm trying to format to be able to import the content into a different application. The one thing that remains is that I need to remove all alt attributes from the HTML entirely. They all have different values and there are around 5000 of them, so clearly a straight find & replace isn't an option. Perhaps there's a way to find and replace with regex in Visual Web developer?
The tools/skills I have available are: HTML, Javascript, ASP (Classic), a little bit of .NET, Visual Web Developer Express 2010, but the only similar things I can find are PHP-based and they don't explain fully enough for me to set up a solution and feed the HTML to it.
I've found things like this: Regular expression to replace several html attributes, which give suggestions of regex functions which do similar things, but I'm not even sure how to run a regex function on a straight HTML file (my browser is struggling with the size of the HTML file as it is, so I don't think javascript is going to cut it).
Can anyone suggest the best way to accomplish this?
Thanks folks...
Since you use Visual Studio, you can try the Regex search & replace option, though the implementation of regexes in Visual Studio is pretty different from other regex engines.
Here's a short article about it:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/the-visual-studio-ide-and-regular-expressions.html
As it says in the article, the builtin regex engine isn't ideal. They mention a plugin with implements standard regexes though:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9125/Standard-Regular-Expression-Searcher-Addin-For-VS
What is the best tool to make complex (multi-line) regular expression file contents searches with good reporting capabilities?
I need to make a report over large Java/JSP code base and I have to make some charts afterward.
Eclipse is rather good at searches, but it does not provide good report of what is found. It just shows the tree of files, but I would like to see a table with columns corresponding to full match, each group, file name, file path, file date, may some version control information etc. Then I can transfer this table to Excel and make some graphs that I want.
Is there some generic file system search tool that has such capabilities? Or maybe there is some Eclispe plugin that can give better reports (note that I'm stuck on eclipse 3.1.2)?
Agent Ransack, TextPad, and UltraEdit allow you to perform regular expression searches against the file system. My favorite is Agent Ransack as you can specify regular expressions for the file names and for the content.
PowerGREP (on Windows) can be used to do (most of) that. You can define the format of your search results quite freely. I haven't tried yet to also add file meta information to the search results, but that should work. Not sure if you can add version control information (where would that come from?) - perhaps if you could be a bit more specific, I could check.
Other than that, why not write a small Python/Ruby/Perl script like JasonTrue suggested?
For searches over code bases with queries that understand the language structure, look at SD Search Engine. This tool indexes larges source base to provide very fast query response.
Queries are stated in terms of langauge elements (identifiers, operators, strings, ...) with constraints over the language elements (including wildcards and regexps on identifiers, strings and comments, as well as range constraints on numbers). Language whitespace and linebreaks (and comments unless you insist) are ignored.
If you want to do a plain regexp search on file character content, you can do that too but you don't get the speed advantage of the index, runs more like regular grep.
The interactive query result is shown in a hit window with other hits; by clicking, you can go to window containg the full source code of a hit.
In logging mode, all hits found are written to a log file with N lines of context, where you configure N. That's probably the report you want.
um... grep -r ?
Or ruby/perl/python, if you want to have more control over the final output; it sounds like what you're after would only be a few lines.