Re: looking for a free cross-platform IDE/editor

From: Otto Wyss (otto.wyss_at_orpatec.ch)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:06:56 +0200

Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> wrote:

> > Who else wants and uses "find and replace" across files?
>
> I agree. When I need to make changes across several files, it's
> almost always easiest just to load them into vim, do a global regex
> search and replace on the first, and then iterate through the buffers
> repeating the command using vim's colon-command history.
>
So do I, I only prefer my own editor ;-)

I've though a little bit about an implementation and come to the
conclusion it's too complex to handle all the problems (difficult undo,
access denied, missing files, etc.)

> On the very, very rare occasion where I want to automate something
> like that, it's easier to toss together a hand-crafted sed script or
> something along those lines. With sed or awk or Perl, I can do much
> more complex things than what a regex replace-across-files feature
> could do, so the domain where such a feature would even be useful for
> me is quite small.
Ditto.

O. Wyss 

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