regexxer
regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.
The screen shot should give you an idea what this is about. If your very first thought was “Hey, I must have this!”, then go for it and download the latest tarball.
Help
Detailed information on the usage and syntax of Perl regular expressions is available from the Perl documentation. There is a quick start page, a tutorial and the definite manual.
What’s new?
After more than two years of waiting, regexxer 0.9 is finally there! Here’s a quick summary of the changes in this release:
- Command line option support
- Icon theme support
- Now builds a working executable on systems with newer libglade
- New GTK+ file chooser button
- Replaced about dialog with stock GTK+ one
- Completely revamped build system
- Lots of new translations: bg ca dz es eu fi fr hu ne pa pl sl sr sr@Latn uk vi zh_CN zh_HK zh_TW
- Other minor cleanups and fixes
regexxer in Debian and Ubuntu
Thanks to Ross Burton and Daniel Holbach, Debian or Ubuntu users just have to type apt-get install regexxer to immediately enjoy the wonders of regexxer.
RPM packages
Christoph Wickert maintains RPM packages of regexxer in the Fedora Extras repository.
Dependencies
| Package | Version | Site |
|---|---|---|
| libsigc++ 2 | 2.0.0 | libsigc.sourceforge.net |
| gtkmm 2 | 2.6.0 | www.gtkmm.org |
| libglademm | 2.4.0 | www.gtkmm.org |
| gconfmm | 2.6.1 | www.gtkmm.org |
| PCRE | 5.0 | www.pcre.org |
All version numbers are minimum requirements, the more recent the better.
I recommend to use the packages that come with your distribution if available.
Note that if you install binary packages, you’ll also need the corresponding
development package (usually packagename-dev)
of each library.