You can choose whether or not to replace only instance of the whole word, so if you’re not using the @ symbol (or another symbol of your choice) anywhere else in your text, you could probably just tack it on the end of the final word likeso@. It’d potentially make it a shade more difficult to easily move around in your text or copy paste since you couldn’t just select the whole thing by double clicking, you’d need to highlight just that character.
As for the default comment color…if you don’t use highlights within your text, you can take advantage of an Apple color quirk to switch your default color. Note that this really is a hack, and definitely don’t use it if you do use the highlight colors in your text, as it will cause chaos (nothing destructive, but it’ll be more trouble than it’s worth).
- Highlight some text in your document by selecting it, opening the Highlight drop-down from the format bar or via the menu and opening the color picker and selecting your color. Even if you already have the color in your drop-down list, you need to pick it through the color picker.
- Create a comment on that highlighted text using the keyboard shortcut.
From now on your comments are in that highlight color, even when not made on highlighted text (you can remove the highlight from the text now, too). This will however affect all your projects until you quit Scrivener–that could either be a pain or a bonus. The new “default” color will change if you click on a comment or make a comment on text highlighted with another color, so avoid that. You can get a couple other oddities if you close and reopen the project (again, nothing destructive that I know of, just confusing–see the bug report), so be sure to just do this and then quit Scrivener entirely when you’re done working so that everything resets appropriately. Your comment backgrounds will stay their chosen color (new ones will revert to the actual yellow default).