I installed the new version of BatchEdit plugin.
There are some new useful options next to the search input:
- Search mode: "regular expression" (the usual case from previous version) or "plain text" (for simply searching text without regular expression syntax)
- Case sensitive: yes/no (Klein-/Großschreibung beachten oder nicht)
- Multiline: not sure how this works; maybe regular expressions would never match mutliple lines without using this option.
There is also a cog wheel (Zahnrad) symbol in the top right corner next to these options, which brings up some additional options:
- Use delimiters and modifiers in regular expression (not sure what these are, but probably can be found out about here: https://www.regular-expressions.info/ )
- Show match context of X characters or Y lines
- Stop search after finding first Z matches (probably important: is set to 100 by default and can be deactivated)
- Preserve marked matches on preview (wenn nicht gesetzt, verschwinden alle gesetzten Häkchen bei der Vorschau und müssen neu gesetzt werden)
- Show confirmation on applying edits with no summary (not sure what this means; irgendeine Abfrage zur Sicherheit in manchen Fällen)
Also there is now a time limit on how long a search or replacement can take (can be changed in Admin settings). I have set this to 10 hours now. Should be enough usually.
Very helpful: there is now a progress bar for the search progress and replacement progress, helping estimating how much longer it will take (very light grey, difficult to distinguish from white).
Not tested much, hopefully not any new errors.
Edit: Just tested searching for "dhamma" with no limit of results; returns an empty result page. Probably too many results so that something gets broken.
Searching for "dhamma" with limit of 16000 results works, and takes a few minutes to complete.
Searching for "Johann" without limit works and gives 2076 results.