User:DemonDays64/Scripts/Dumb quotes.js
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// See the documentation! Hope you like the script :-)
// NOTE: Uses a regex feature implemented fairly recently in some browsers (https://caniuse.com/?search=Lookbehind):
// Chrome: 10/2017 | Firefx: 6/2020 | Edge: 1/2020 | Safari: 3/2023 | Opera: 11/2017
// If running older browsers I believe it will work normally except that it will modify File links. The previous versions did not have this feature and used widely-supported Regex.
mw.loader.using('mediawiki.util', function () {
$(document).ready(function () {
var pageBeforeEdit;
var modifiedPage;
var previousSummary;
//add a tab on the left
var dumbQuotesLink = mw.util.addPortletLink("p-tb", "#", "Dumb quotes", "t-dumb-quotes", "Convert curly to straight quotes");
$(dumbQuotesLink).click(function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
editPage();
});
function runRegex(regex, thingToRegex) {
modifiedPage = thingToRegex.replace(regex.find, regex.replace);
}
function makeAndRunRegex(findRegex, replace) {
var regexObject = {
find: findRegex,
replace: replace
};
runRegex(regexObject, modifiedPage);
}
function doEdit() {
document.editform.wpTextbox1.value = modifiedPage;
}
function setEditSummary(summary, isMinor) {
document.editform.wpMinoredit.checked = isMinor;
previousSummary = document.editform.wpSummary.value;
if (previousSummary !== "") {
if (!previousSummary.includes(summary)) {
document.editform.wpSummary.value = document.editform.wpSummary.value + " | " + summary;
}
}
else {
document.editform.wpSummary.value = summary;
}
}
function showDiff() {
if(typeof doaction !== 'undefined') doaction("diff");
}
function editPage() {
pageBeforeEdit = document.editform.wpTextbox1.value;
modifiedPage = pageBeforeEdit;
makeAndRunRegex(/(?<!File:[^\]]*[^\]]*)(‘|’)/g, "'");
makeAndRunRegex(/(?<!File:[^\]]*[^\]]*)(“|”)/g, '"');
doEdit();
setEditSummary("Replaced curly quotes with straight with [[User:DemonDays64/Scripts/Dumb quotes.js|script]] per [[MOS:CQ]].", true);
showDiff();
}
});
});