Allow plugins to set find and replace strings in the Find/Replace panels

[keith-hall]

Currently, it is possible to execute the show_panel Window command and set a variety of options when showing the find or replace panels:

window.run_command('show_panel', { 'panel': 'replace', 'regex': True, 'case_sensitive': False, 'whole_word': False, 'in_selection': False, 'wrap': True, 'highlight': True, 'preserve_case': True })

however, it is not possible to set what value should be filled in for the Find What or Replace With text boxes.

The only current option is to use the slurp_find_string and slurp_replace_string commands, which take the selection from the buffer. However, these are also both Window commands, so there is no way to set the find/replace string without putting it into the main buffer first (i.e. one can't work around it by using a hidden output panel View to execute the commands on).

Please could it be made possible to set the find and replace strings either by:

• specifying arguments to the show_panel command like window.run_command('show_panel', { 'panel': 'replace', 'regex': True, 'case_sensitive': False, 'whole_word': False, 'in_selection': False, 'wrap': True, 'highlight': True, 'preserve_case': True, 'find_string': 'foo', 'replace_string': 'bar' })
• and/or by implementing new commands like set_find_string and set_replace_string which would take a string argument

[BenjaminSchaaf]

In build 4123 the "pattern" and "replace_pattern" have been added as arguments for the find/replace/find-in-files panels.