Description
This is just a nice-to-have:
For editor.rereplace() there doesn't seem to be a good way to know the number of replacements that were actually made.
Suggestion: It's return value (currently always None) could be an integer with that count.
Workaround # 1 is to run editor.research() first with the same "find" expression, and, like the .research() example in the docs shows, add the matches to a list, and then do a len() on the list, but this is wasteful as the search is done twice this way (once in .research() and once in .rereplace()).
Workaround # 2 is to use a function as the replacement "text" in the .rereplace() call, and add in a custom counter, for example:
replacement_count = 0
def add_1(m):
global replacement_count
replacement_count += 1
return 'Y' + str(int(m.group(1)) + 1)
editor.rereplace('X([0-9]+)', add_1);
Workaround # 2 is fine but again it is extra work that Pythonscript itself could do for me.
Request is also made for editor.replace() and truly even editor.research() and editor.search() could also return match/replacement counts.
Request is made against 1.5.x Pythonscript (and presumably the new 3.x beta as well).