WeblateOrg / WeblateOrg/weblate

Enhance Search & Replace with RegEx

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enhancement Waiting for: Demand
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Description

It would be fantastic if the Search and Replace feature was not only a _simple substring S&R_ but would also take RegEx (r"....") as Search input, ideally also Replace with $1 etc.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26718215/109427143-4795a200-79f1-11eb-9e0e-adbf6d2a36f3.png)

Like
```
Search: r"([A-Z]+\w*)"
Replace: \L$0
```
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26718215/109427432-b58e9900-79f2-11eb-82fd-40b58e6c851c.png)

(Replacing all CAP with lower; just as an example)

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