Re: Repetitive editing

From: [at]} <Gérard>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:02:40 +0200

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CpcRegul may help you, too.

    http://www.zinnamturm.de/#CpcRegul

Cheers.

Gérard

----- Original Message -----
From: Campbell, Robert D (UK) <robert.d.campbell{([at]})nowhere.xy
To: Douglas G. Danforth <danforth{([at]})nowhere.xy
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: RE: Repetitive editing




Look in Helmut's CPC page. Cpc/Search goes quite a
long way (if not all the way) towards this with an
'easy' graphical interface.

I am not an expert, but I think that Babel supports regular
expressions, and thus vertually unlimited power.


Cheers

Robert


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Douglas G. Danforth [mailto:danforth{([at]})nowhere.xy
>> Sent: 30 July 2003 03:57
>> To: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
>> Subject: Repetitive editing
>>
>>
>> *** WARNING ***
>>
>> This mail has originated outside your organization,
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>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I frequently (more often than one might suppose) come across
>> situations
>> where I must convert text from one form to another. For example
>>
>> DCOSH (dbl) DOUBLE PRECISION
>>
>> becomes
>>
>> Dcosh = "DCOSH" "(" dbl ")" .
>>
>> I can not do this in any kind of repetitive way using the BlackBox
>> editor, that is, at least not to my knowledge.
>>
>> If I were using TvEdit (an old 1970's editor) I could
>> define a macro
>> "/z" (Ctrl-z) that would start at the current location and
>>
>> DCOSH (dbl) DOUBLE PRECISION
>> "cw" (copy word)
>> DCOSH DCOSH (dbl) DOUBLE PRECISION
>> "lw" (lower the case of the word)
>> dcosh DCOSH (dbl) DOUBLE PRECISION
>> "uc" (upper case character)
>> Dcosh DCOSH (dbl) DOUBLE PRECISION
>> ")" (go to start of next word)
>> 'i= "[ESC]' (insert an equals sign and space, revert back to command
>> mode by typing the escape key)
>> Dcosh = "DCOSH (dbl) DOUBLE PRECISION
>> ".)" (go end of current word)
>> 'i"[ESC]' (insert quote, revert to command mode)
>> "s(" (search for a left parenthesis on this line)
>> 'i"[ESC]>i" [ESC]' (put double quotes around parenthesis)
>> Dcosh = DCOSH "(" dbl) DOUBLE PRECISION
>> "s)" (search for right parens)
>> 'i "[ESC]>i"[ESC]' (quote right parens)
>> Dcosh = DCOSH "(" dbl ")" DOUBLE PRECISION
>> "$dc" (infinite delete characters to end of line )
>> Dcosh = DCOSH "(" dbl ")"
>> "i .[ESC]" (end expression with a period)
>>
>> Then any other line of the form
>> FUNCTION (arg) type
>> could be converted by a single keystroke (Ctrl-z, say) to
>> Function = "FUNCTION" "(" arg ")" .
>>
>> My fingers still remember the ease with which one could edit large
>> passages of repetitive text without having them leave the
>> keyboard to
>> touch a mouse.
>>
>> Has anyone implemented a macro capability as an add on to
>> the Blackbox
>> editor?
>>
>> -Doug


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