I'm guessing you mean a block quote search replace
you are not wanting to find multiple instances of a single word and replace it but rather a block of text that may be (paragraphicly) on more than one line, and to find that whole block of text and replace it.
such as
if (blah iswm %blah) { do stuff }
if (day == sunny) { walk the dog }
then highlite both lines and replace it with two whole lines that are totally or significantly different
edit:
I can see where rarely this could have been helpful, such as having done some dialog that needed the same code in several places, and I had gotten to the third one before realizing I should do the functional stuff as an alias. then to find a block of code and replace it with an alias name enmass would have been ok
had I gotten to where i had 10 things that took very similar code and gotten to the 10th before seeing how i should have done an alias to do that and then having a block quote/replace would really make my day.
so I'm in support of the idea, but i just don't have it happen that much.
Last edited by MikeChat; 22/03/06 09:32 PM.