Batch Commands: Feature enhancement

[Greg]

I'm just beginning to use the Batch Commands feature, which appears to be incredibly valuable by the way (thank you for this), but I was wondering about a possible enhancement. What is the possibility of adding an option for a CSV file (export and import). This way, I could define my list of find/replace operations within Excel and then export the workbook as a CSV file, ready for TextCrawler to do it's magic. Also, perhaps adding an additional parameter for the type of replacement to perform (i.e. Standard, RegEx, etc). What do you think?

[DV]

There is a batch import option in TextCrawler 2, you can import a list of find/replace pairs (csv).
Check out the batch replace screen.

[Greg]

Thank you!! I find this feature absolutely brilliant and the application it's self is wonderful, but there is just one thing I tend to have a problem with. When I'm trying to perform a find and replace across a large number of files (several thousand), TextCrawler will lockup and never recover. I found the same happened when testing this feature because I was trying to perform this operation across 9000 pages. Is this a known issue?

[DV]

It's unlikely to have locked up, it might just appear to have done so, as it the GUI is not correctly multithreaded yet (planned for future update.) Left for a long time, it would probably finish the job. If there was a problem, it would be more likely to pop up an error message.

[query]

I am tring to build an index of my htm pages. Is there a way to feed in a list of terms using batch commands and have textcrawler spit out the results? Thanks so much in advance.