JOSM Search and Replace?

[pyrog]

@skyper

In my opinion there are several reason why this feature is an addon. Why do you need it in core?

Like a “basic” text editor for.coders, simply search en replace several patterns.
Currently we must save JOSM data in .osm, search and replace with the text editor, reload the file in JOSM.
The problem is that is an object is modified, we must add action='modify', so this isn’t easy and error prone.

@skyper

Sure MapCSS can do this with a simple regex and an auto-fix to replace your separator is possible

Yes I read the doc in the meantime.
I will test your code, thank you

@skyper

If the values of start_date are an bigger issue a ticket to get it into core might be useful but if above is working and useful, I can add it as external rule.

I will check with taginfo if there is a lot of similar issue with start_date, end_date, check_date, abandoned:date, survey:date…

We could expand CheckDate to check other *date tags and fix them if necessary.