On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 14:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Pluma is my editor of choice. > *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving > regular > expressions. > > Emacs can. It has much verbose documentation. > But examples seem rather scarce.
nedit can handle regular expressions in search and replace operations. I find nedit easier to use than emacs. > > I need to replace ANY occurrence of > <span class="verse" id="V1"> > thru [at most] > <span class="verse" id="V119"> > by > <sup> > > I'm reformatting a Bible stored in HTML format for a particular set > of > vision impaired seniors (myself included). Each chapter is in its own > file. > > How do I open a file. > Do the above replacement. > Save and close the file. > > Help please. > TIA >
