Posted by dorayme on 01/26/07 22:41

In article <pan.2007.01.26.22.29.25.479369@sorrynospam.com>,
Andrew <andrew@sorrynospam.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:54:27 +1100, dorayme wrote:
>
> snip >>>>>>
> >
> > What sort of editor do you have? Have you got GREP pattern
> > facilities in it? You can make patterns and semi automate much of
> > this stuff. For example, I made a simple pattern replacement:
>
> snip >>>>>
>
> Hi dorayme,
>
> I use Bluefish and until you mentioned it I was not aware that grep was
> built into it (Open Advanced ...). Having found it I guess I now need to
> learn to use it :-)
>

Look up the help files on it for your software, there may be a
simple tute and some tables of patterns. When doing what I
suggested, don't forget to tick the "change only selected text"
box or similar. It is powerful stuff and you don't want it
running wild over the whole file (though command Z or control Z
can reverse all). You can use it to set up and change all sorts
of things over multiple files too - but always test on one file
at least before doing this, there can be unexpected (but
perfectly "correct") results.

--
dorayme

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