Comment 10 for bug 909328

Here is a patch that covers quite a few of the ideas in the blueprint (thanks for the link jazzynico).

From the blueprint - not touched since 2008 ;)
> Inkscape should provide several presets for those who just want to do very simple replacements: replace text to text, replace color to color etc. (this will eliminate at least two existing extension effects).

This is exactly what i have tried to do ... this patch certainly doesn't provide a full 'regex' type solution as proposed, but you can find/replace on any attribute of any object so it does bring a lot of power to the users.

I think it makes a sizable step forward from the current interface.
Take a look, and decide if its worth pursing.