Visual REGEXP , by Laurent Riesterer, is a program that illustrates the mechanics of regular expressions, quickly build efficient regular expressions, etc. Currently at
My raving was deleted, but I reiterate it: never mind similar tools: this app can be improved, but it can't be beaten.
RLH: I use this app all the time. I have tweaked it (wider buttons and a quit button) but other than that I really like it.
aspect: as of 2015-02-26 I have made some tiny tweaks for this so I don't have to be this guy . Eventually it will get into a chiselapp repo. Ping me if you want to hurry that process along. PING!
LW: Can you elaborate on the tweaks you made? I maintain this app's package for the Gentoo Linux distribution and may be interested in some of your changes.
aspect: pretty trivial stuff so far. My notes say:
# - remove stale manual undo code (handled by text widgets) # - collapse delete/insert into a single replace to leave undo clean # - get rid of extra newline from [.t get 1.0 end] # - change select buttons in replace mode (only) to insert \\$x in replace.text # - tag/colour inserted \\$x in replace.text # - default to replace mode # - change help font to TkFixedFont (and bold version of same) # - bump version number to 3.2. filename said 3.1; source said 3.0