[Feature request] Perpending and appending string

[alessandrodallafina]

First of all, awesome plugin! I looove ti!

Just a small side note. Not sure how hard would it be supporting the prepending/appending feature. This way users can keep the layer name and simply appending other strings without affecting the original values.

Just a thought ;)

[leonardpauli]

Haha, thanks! Of course it's supported! Just put parenthesis around your find expression (it's regular expressions after all) and then prefix$1suffix as the replacement! With regex, you can even do a lot more powerful things! Try pressing the help-button (?) in the corner of the dialog :)

Examples:
Find: stone (anywhere, case-insensitive, in the name)
Replace: flower
With the layers with the following names selected
hello stone -> hello flower
hello tree -> hello tree (no match)
thestonemaster -> theflowermaster

Find: ^stone$ (exactly, case-insensitive, ^ is the start, $ is the end)
Replace: flower
With the layers with the following names selected
hello stone -> hello stone (no match)
stone -> flower

Find: (.+) (anything, and save it as $1, same as just leaving the field empty)
Replace: A $1 heh
With the layers with the following names selected
hello stone -> A hello stone heh
stone -> A stone heh

Find: ^(flower)( ?copy( \d)?)+ (more complex regex)
Replace: A $1, %N
With the layers with the following names selected, in that order
flower -> flower (No match - doesn't have "copy"...)
flower copy 3 -> A flower, 1 (first match)
stone flower copy 1 -> stone flower copy 1 (No mach - doesn't start with "flower")
flower copy 3 copy 5 -> A flower, 2 (second match)
flower copy 1 copy -> A flower, 3 (third match)

[leonardpauli]

So basically, just:

• Select your layers (alternatively find them through the included Select plugin; cmd-alt-F)
• Hit cmd-alt-R
• Leave the first field empty (ie. hit backspace followed by tab)
• Write my prefix $1 my suffix ($1 is the original layer name)
• Hit enter

[alessandrodallafina]

Damn it, I took a look at some of the things that you can do with RegEx but I totally missed it! #facepalm

Thanks a lot for replying so quickly! And keep it up!