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

[Roger Williams]

If you're going to do that, you might just as well use emacs/xemacs (my preferred editor for the past 25 years) which does all that you're talking about and works just fine on Windows.

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Roger Williams <roger at qux.com>
Chief Technical Officer, Qux Corporation

Brian Johnson <brian at sherbang.com> wrote:

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