Support `selection` as parameter for `replaceText` - so we can transform selected text from smart fragments

[RealRaven2000]

Usage:

We want to do replacements in the selected text, for instance, the string

Menu >> submenu >> command

should be transformed into

Menu » submenu » command

Additionally we could add some markup to display the text in italic (or wrap a layout span around it). Example for such a smart fragment:

<i>%replaceText(">>","»",selection)%</i>

Ideally the text (html) should still be selected after the replacement operation, this way we could concatenate multiple such commands for some powerful formatting.

[RealRaven2000]

Here is new version with the funciton added. Result:

By highlighting a line below (even if it has additional HTML such as bold or colored) we can transform it to a cursive string replacing all instances of ">>" with the Guillemet (right pointing double angle quotation mark) by using the following fragment:

<i>%replaceText(">>","»",selection)%</i>

At the moment if removes the existing selection state, so re-selecting the inserted string would be a nice-to-have. But this is already very useful to me!

smartTemplate-fx-4.5pre42.zip

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[RealRaven2000]

Found some regressions that made %matchTextFromBody()% misbehave. Fixed in the version below:

smartTemplate-fx-4.5pre44.zip

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[RealRaven2000]

Added documentation in Variables tab + localized to most supported languages:

smartTemplate-fx-4.5pre56.zip

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[RealRaven2000]

Found another regression that had problems with multiple smartTempalte variables in the same line (overmatching and combining multiple lines) such as To: "%to(name)%"<%to("( %",mail)%>

smartTemplate-fx-4.5pre57.zip

this one should be more stable

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[RealRaven2000]

Implemented in 4.5 released on 14/05/2024