Saving search parameters for further use
If you often use a regular expression, you can save it in favorites. The search pattern, the replacement, and the search modes will be saved.
Press the button with a downward arrow (near the Search for and the Replace with fields) and select Add to favorites.
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Now type the name of the favorite, under which it will appear in the menu. You can also correct the pattern or the modes here.
![](addToFavorites2.png)
Your search parameters are now saved. You can go back to them by selecting the item from menu:
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The Manage favorites dialog allows you to edit the saved parameters or to delete them.
This is a page from Aba Search and Replace help file.
- Welcome to Aba
- Getting started
- How-to guides
- Selecting the files to search in
- Inserting some text at the beginning of each file
- Replacing multiple lines of text
- Searching in Unicode files
- Replacing in binary files
- Performing operations with the found files
- Undoing a replacement
- Saving search parameters for further use
- Removing private data
- Adding or removing Aba from Explorer context menu
- Integrating Aba with Total Commander
- Integrating Aba with Free Commander
- Integrating Aba with Directory Opus
- Regular Expressions
- Replacement syntax
- User interface
- Command line
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Version history
- Credits