Advanced whole story editing

[dirtytyke]

A little while ago I wanted to make a change to my entire story, implementing custom character names.
This was extremely frustrating having to go through 50+ chapters and edit each to use the variables instead.

It'd be awesome if there was some kind of find/replace that works storywide or an entire story export/import function so authors can make changes like this in their favourite text editor. Obviously this would be capable of screwing up a story if used incorrectly though.

 

[gene.sis]

Find/replace can be dangerous as discussed here.

For the special case of introducing a new immersion variable, I think a function to up- and download stories would work better. There is a suggestion about this from the Reader Suggestion story

 

[dirtytyke]

Find/replace can be dangerous as discussed here.

Indeed, which was why I was extremely careful and thought about the special cases when I did it myself, but I still had to go through every chapter one at a time, copy paste find replace copy paste update silent save.
I don't want to have to do that again!