Add "Match Whole Word" setting to "Change All Occurrences"

[donwinchell]

This is regarding the "Change All Occurrences" feature. Maybe I am expecting too much, but when I tried to replace int with byte it also changed all my print and println to prbytet and prbytetln.

It makes perfect sense and I am not complaining but I just don't know if this is the intention.

[builderdev212]

I think there's a pretty simple fix to this. In some cases you want to be able to look for words inside of words, so I believe that is the intent. instead of replacing "int" with "byte" try instead replacing " int " with " byte ". This should solve the issue you have described, though it might potentially have issues with declarations without spaces in front of them. A neat way to maybe solve this problem(as in make it easier for the user) would be to include a toggle switch to toggle whether you wanted just the word alone, or the word inside of other words as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is an issue in a lot of IDE's with text replacement.

[per1234]

Hi @donwinchell. Thanks for your feedback.

where to post

Bug reports, feature requests, and code contributions for Arduino IDE 2.x should be made to this repository:
https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide

The other one https://github.com/arduino/Arduino is for the classic Arduino IDE (as well as general non-IDE subjects that don't have a dedicated issue tracker). I have transferred your issue from there to the IDE 2.x repository.

it also changed all my print and println to prbytet and prbytetln.

I don't know that the "Change All Occurrences" context item is configurable, but the Arduino IDE 2.x "Find" and "Search" capabilities do have a "Match Whole Word" configuration (Ab| icon) that provides the capability you desire while using them: