How To Do These RegEx Replacements on the Clipboard?

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@tiffle

EDIT: Or is it because (as I've just read in the KM manual) that the text field by default is a "token text field" and so, since "\u" is a text token KM interprets it before passing it to the variable?

Or is it the \ characters, also special in KM text fields -- which IMO is why the search is failing, so $1 isn't populated...

There are just too many possible problems trying use special characters in a prompt to fill a variable to use in a regex. I think @ComplexPoint point's approach is better -- if you want a user-defined regex search and replace, hand it off.

Since using AppleScript means we can leverage KME's regex engine, with all the goodies we know and love (and nothing to do with me knowing zero JavaScript!) -- here's my go at it:

Find and Replace in current segment - AS.kmmacros (4.4 KB)

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Works with OP's text/requirements, but I haven't tried many other regexs -- so test thoroughly!