The list while fairly comprehensive is not complete. They are slower than the old Replace Regex, but I found myself using BBEdit Lite for unstyled text anyway. The PCRE engine (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) is what BBEdit and TextWrangler use.
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Moreover, recording in a UNIX command-line editor is a nightmare and with a Mac classic or X application it's a breeze.Īnyone who hates any technology developed after 1970 really won't enjoy OS X.īy the way i am releasing next month both an improved Classic/Dialog Director/Regex Commands version of Replace Regex and an AppleScript Studio version.īoth will handle styled text post-regex sub according to the rules of Tex-Edit Plus. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email '' rather than posting to the group. Cheers Spencer - This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. In that area it's also clearly inferior to BBEdit. Here is what I came up with: find: ((foo'.')\s(bar'.')) replace: \2 bar'whatever' Note that there is a space after the final quote. Vi is clearly not superior to emacs or xemacs w/r/t plug-ins and modes. I use TE for formatted text, but a lot of that is html formatting derived from sophisticated regex/style combinations. I like the regex capacity of BBEDit, and i have duplicated it with my script "Replace Regex" in Tex-Edit Plus. Scan the Replace text for red text which indicates special characters that may need to be escaped. Paste the replacement text into the Replace box and make sure Grep is checked under Matching. I do most of my quick-and-dirty editing in vi, and use sed for multiple files, unless i have to use awk or perl. In BBEdit, select Multi-File Search from the Search Menu, and paste your chosen expression into the Find: box. I am very familiar with vi, nor is it hard to use, compared to ed. There is also a reason why every UNIX I know of lets you use a mouse. The replacement \2\t\1 just flips the two portions of the line and inserts a tab between them.
long regex subs or duplicated macros) would be the misexample chosen. Which is a very quick regular expression away: If you haven’t learned regular expression syntax yet 1, the expression (0-9+) (.) is just finding every line that starts with numbers, followed by a space, followed by everything else on the line. It shows a telling ignorance of clippings and drag and drop that "moving text" (vs. In fact the only slow editor i have right now is AbiWord. \U: Start converting all letters to uppercase.
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Moving text is precisely what editors like BBEdit and Tex-Edit Plus do infinitely faster than vi. NOTE: The following examples were tested in BBEdit which has a great grep search/replace functionality and which uses \ to indicate capture groups rather than as is common in other RegEx implementations.
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