OT maybe: Looking for a tool or . . .?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:22:20 -0800, Patton Echols wrote:
> 
>>> In Emacs:
>>>
>>> Bold:
>>>
>>> Alt-x replace-regex
>>> <b>.*?</b> RETURN
>>> RETURN
>>>
>>> Italics:
>>>
>>> Alt-x replace-regex
>>> <i>\(.*?\)</i> RETURN
>>> \1 RETURN
>>>
>>> If you have questions, you could reply, or try the
>>> help-gnu-emacs at gnu.org list
>>> (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs)
>>>
>>> Matthew Flaschen
>>>
>>>   
>> Ok, this looks like something I can figure out.  I appreciate it.
>>
>> This is the sort of thing that I need to do in different forms 
>> repeatedly.  And part of the attraction of linux is the ability to do 
>> this stuff,
> 
> Ofcourse, in any editor that has search&replace, on _any_ OS, you can
> replace "<b>" with "" and "</b>" with "", and so on.

Well, it would be "<i>" or "</i>" with ""  in most editors (and the
<b>*</b> is harder), but good call.  That didn't even occur to me.  I
don't know whether that's good or bad.

> And Emacs is ported to many systems as well, so I certainly wouldn't call
> this a Linux-attraction. :-)

Let's call it GNU/Linux and split the difference. (I have used Emacs on
Windows)

Matthew Flaschen

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