[Hidden-tech] Versatile Text Editor with Find/Replace macros

[Brian Johnson]

On 01/20/2010 11:27 PM, Stefan Gonick wrote:
> Thank you for all of the interesting options for text editors. After exploring
> them a bit, I see that they all handle my original request. However, I have
> now gotten clear on a feature that I would really love.
>
> I need to clean up files on a regular basis where I would like to run a
> series of regex find and replace commands. I would like to be able to
> store these commands into a macro or a set of macros.
>
> I tried downloading and playing with Notepad++, but it's macros do not
> support the find and replace command. The other editors have to be
> purchased, though they do support a free trial period. Does anyone know
> if any of these editor will do what I want so that I don't have to download
> and try out each one of them? The available documentation online doesn't
> answer my question.
>    

You could always just use the unix /sed/ command - there should be a 
version of it in cygwin if you can't find a standalone windows version.

sed -e 's/oldtext/newtext/' <files>  will run a search and replace regex 
against a list of files.
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