Re: grepwin - No "About", and Replace With greyed in text search

V S Rawat wrote:
> I have just installed grepwin 1.3.0
>
> the following are obsrvations:
>
> 1. As I know your installation file currently, but after a few days, the
> installation file would go to some backup folder and I would forget what
> version I have installed. There is no mention of version no. on the
> start menu entry nor in the program files/grepwin folder or anywhere and
> there is no "About" entry in the grepwin window.
>
> That would create problem in identifying the version that I am using.
> Hope you mention it somewhere easily locatable.

The 'about' is in the system menu. Either right-click on the entry in
the task bar (the 'about grepWin' is the last entry in that context
menu), or click on the application icon in the top left of the grepWin
dialog.

> 2. Replace With is working in regex search, but when I switch to text
> search, Replace With becomes greyed, thus doesn't work.
>
> Why is it so? If I want to replace a simple entry without needing regex,
> why am I not allowed to do so?

Replacing is done with the regex engine.
But if you don't want to use a regex for replacing, just put \Q...\E
around your search string (hint: press F1 in the grepWin dialog).

Stefan

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