Suggestion: Align Type With

[chrisjj]

Could the r-c menu please have an Align Extension With... command to swifly create an alignment override?

E.g. to align all left JPGs with right BMPs

1) r-c a left JPG
2) click Align Extension With...
3) click a right BMP

Thanks.

[Chris]

Chris, thanks for the suggestion.

In the current version, you can align file extensions using a regular expression alignment.

Select Session|Session Settings and go to the Misc tab.
Click New.
Check "Regular Expression".
For the left file, enter "(.*).JPG".
For the right fine, enter "$1.BMP".

The parenthesis save a match that can be accessed in the variable $1 in the replacement.

[chrisjj]

For the left file, enter "(.*).JPG".
For the right fine, enter "$1.BMP".Thanks. (Though I think (.*)\.JPG is what's meant.)

I hope the Help gets an addition to cover that.

And that the regexp interpretation is as if there were ^ at start and $ at end.

And that left (.*)\..* right $1\..* doesn't work.

[Craig]

Use the regular expression support isn't necessary. You can use *.jpg and *.bmp as the two fields. Internally we translate them into regular expressions and line up things (.*) and $nnn based on mutual * and ? wildcards.