Are you happy with Confluence Qs as a replacement for Answers?

[JamieA]

I am not. It's much harder to use. The new editor is very slightly better, but doesn't make up for all the other disadvantages. After a spell when Atlassian pulled out all the stops to make sure the migration was successful, the pace of improvements seemed to have dropped to zero.

On a personal level, I am perpetually frustrated by the broken email notifications.

My efficiency at dealing with requests on my plugins is way down, due to the useless labels.

Anyone have any suggestions about how to improve this? Maybe @Joe Clark [Atlassian] ?

[Bob Swift · Accepted solution]

1. It helps a lot to get your regex working using this tool: http://www.regexplanet.com/advanced/java/index.html
2. You need to watch out for special characters (command line and regex) - it can get confusing when you have to escape things and it depends on your OS what needs to be escaped (the example \$ is an escaped $ on unix)
3. Quick look at your regex shows a few problems
   1. Don't you want [A-Z]* ? You are missing the closing ] and the * (0 or more characters)
   2. You need $1 on the replace
   3. I suspect you need some like:

      (@[A-Z]*):some text\$1some other text

[Maarten van Hees]

Thanks for your answer, i've checked it out and i managed to get it working! Seems i wasn't far off, i kept using \$1 but it started working when i stopped using the backslash. This works for me:

--findReplaceRegex "(@[A-Z0-9]*):<span class='quaestor_syntax'>$1</span>"

Thanks again for your help!

[Bob Swift]

Good, for Windows, you don't need to escape the $ like for unix.