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KWrite has a good find-replace function which allows regular expressions. Alternatively, if you need to do this operation a lot, then a Perl script might be the way to go. Robin On Thursday 14 February 2002 03:11, Randy Kramer wrote: > Walter Logeman wrote: > > Yes i am familiar with the process you describe in Word. I > > wonder of Star Office has the same ability? > > I don't know -- I fooled around with Star Office for a little > while, but never tried anything like this, but I would expect the > ability to do search and replace on paragraph marks and similar. > > > Good, i will see whatelse it does with line endings... > > Have fun! I asked on the nedit list about folding once (something > like Word's collapsible outlining) -- they seemed receptive to > implementing something in the future. I pay attention to the list > and have seen no activity toward that end. That is the one thing I > still need (in a word processor or an editor). > > > > Does Textpad have some > > > better magic? Can you describe it or point to a link? > > > > It is very comprehensive. I can set different behaviousrs for > > different types of files eg txt or html etc. I can set it to > > add hard returns upon save - or not, and the word wrap is done > > independently form the line endings or the window size. > > I'll check it out! > > > Thanks for the details on nedit... helpful. > > You're welcome! > > Randy Kramer -- "Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted." Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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