Forums Feature Suggestions Two minor suggestions

1. Make $regsub() return the output text, instead the the number of substitutions, if no %var parameter is specified. For example,
   
   echo -a $regsub([name,] text, /re/, subtext)
   var %result = $regsub([name,] text, /re/, subtext)
   alias blah { return $regsub([name,] text, /re/, subtext) }
2. Make the Channels List window display 'non-text channels' by default.

I would LOVE to see the first feature added.

1 is really wanted.
IMHO, $regsub(), even though it does return something, has obviously a main purpose and, for that purpose, it currently just acts as a regular /command, instead of an identifier. Meaning, it returns a number, but what generally matters is the specified %var it modifies/creates.
Think about having to use .echo -q $tokenize(%text,32) to tokenize %text, when the identifier returns the number of tokens created (and you don't care about this number). It's a similar thing.
This behaviour doesn't seem consistent to me and what's suggested here would make much more sense...

I do like to see that feature, but there are uses for the number of substitutions, i have some while ($regsub(blah)) loops, so please keep this feature also.

A problem might be that there will be 2 optional arguments, the %var at the end and the $regml identifier at the start. This can be difficult to parse if there are 3 arguments given. Maybe the no-%var regsub should get another name or make the last parameter 0 or $null if no %var is present?

Yeah, that's why I said "generally". Implementing new .properties would solve these issues.

I would absolutely love to see your first suggestion regarding $regsub added.

I have used $regsub a lot, in cases where knowing how many substitutions there were (what $regsub returns), and in cases where I only cared about the substituted result, and to be honest, 90% of the cases is the latter case, for me and most people.

$regsub dynamically re-evaluating the substitution part would also be a nice new feature, something that's been suggested a couple of times before I think.