You can't do it with pico unfortunately (that's my editor of choice as well, because it's the first one I ever learned, but the functionality pales in comparison with one like vi, which I can't use for crap :D)... vi offers this type of functionality w/ regex search and replace, so you could do this command (I tested it before I posted):
:%s/REMOVE_BIT(\s*\([^,?]*\)/remove_bit(\&\1/g this will do a case-sensitive search and replace of the REMOVE_BIT statements in favor of the new style, it will also strip out any spacing between that opening parenthese and the text so that: REMOVE_BIT(ch->act,PLR_QUESTING); or REMOVE_BIT( ch->act,PLR_QUESTING); or REMOVE_BIT( ch->act,PLR_QUESTING); Becomes remove_bit(&ch->act,PLR_QUESTING); and you don't accidentally wind up with something like this: remove_bit(& ch->act,PLR_QUESTING); Hope this helps :) Richard Lindsey. -----Original Message----- From: Orlis Soilface [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: regular expression search and replace im planning on putting in runters infinite bits and was wondering if this was possible. i only really use pico for editting in the shell so havent had to much experience with something else although i did search and try some things with no success. basically, im wondering if this can be done: find: REMOVE_BIT(%1->act,PLR_QUESTING); and replace with: remove_bit(&%1->act,PLR_QUESTING); ya know what i mean? -- ROM mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe here ->>> http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
