Enhancement: Multiple Selectors for Smartnaming + PR Inquiry

[AlexTamayo]

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I made these changes to VDH because this feature has been requested before, but it hasn't been added yet, and I really needed it.

I added multiple selectors to the smartnaming section. Ideally, I would have made it dynamic, allowing users to specify how many selectors they want, which would then generate the corresponding number of entry fields. However, I’m rather busy and didn’t have the time to implement something like that, so I went with a quicker solution. It’s not as elegant, but it gets the job done.

I'd like to know where I can submit a PR if the developers are interested in integrating this into the main app.

By the way, I also modified the regex to allow saving files with square brackets, underscores, and dots. I'm not sure why those were removed, but they’re important for how I name my files.

Let me know what you think!

Addon & CoApp version and details

version: 9.3.0.2
target: microsoft
channel: stable
lang: en-GB
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license: {"accepted":true,"email":"","key":"a8e809d71b334c67"}
platform: x86-64 win
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/133.0.0.0
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[DSP-91]

I hope they consider implementing this suggestion as a feature. I found this discussion while searching for a way to do multiple selectors. I ended up also modifying the extension to add a couple more selector fields and it helps a ton. It was a pretty simple change if you know what you're looking at, but it took me forever as a hobbyist.
For anyone else that comes across this discussion looking for the same functionality, a faster and easier (though more tedious) solution is to use a user-script through something like tampermonkey to create a new element on the page with the innerText set to what you want the file name to be, and then pointing VDH's selector at that. You just won't be able to get around VDH's regex filter, so no brackets or @ or anything. This is probably what I'll end up doing going forward unless and until they add it in officially, just so that I'm not missing extension updates or anything.