Re^2: Janitors Thread Retitler v1

[tye]

I'd prompt for a 'from' and 'to' and not try to parse "Re^2:" but just s/\Q$from/$to/ on the titles. Perhaps slightly more robust would be

s/(?!(?<=\w)\w)\Q$from\E(?!(?<=\w)\w)/$to/

Which is like \b\Q$from\E\b except that it is more DWIM in cases where $from starts or ends with \W characters.

And I'd prompt for what to add to the bottom of retitled nodes (with what castaway proposed as a default) since I'd only rarely want to include the full original title, especially that many times.

I didn't check, but I hope it allows me to retitle subtrees of a thread.

[ysth]

"that many times" ? I thought we only put the janitor-comment on the top node. Or perhaps I have no idea what you mean?

[tye]

Sorry, I missed "root". I still would rather not quote the entire previous title in many (most) cases.

I was thinking it might be nice to have two default attributions to pick from, the second being something like "... by tye: $title =~ s/$old/$new/...". Actually, I'd like [id://22609] used instead of [tye], but I don't mind maintaining my own copy of the script for such quirks. :)