Re: In with the New

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:
>
> Reply to note from Leslie Bialler  Mon, 20 Jul
> 1998 16:33:26 -0400
>
> -> I think it would be majorly useful to have an XPL routine that
> -> would in effect take the already wonderful search across files
> -> Xy command, and make it even more efficient, and therefore
> -> useful not only for searching but also for replacing.
>
> Leslie:
>
> I wrote something last year that enhances the SEarch-across-files
> function. What it does, in a nutshell, is to make it more like an
> single-file search. The cursor moves to each occurrence of the
> search term, with an option to stop and edit along the way. There
> is no replace feature, however.
>
Thanks for the info. Hey, you can't have _everything!_ search, stop, and
edit will do just fine.

> I never posted it to XyWWWeb because it has some bugs that I wanted
> to quash, something I never got around to doing. But, frankly, it's
> not bad as-is; it's totally replaced the native command for me.
>
I'll give it a try. . . .


> I have no present plans to develop it further, but you're welcome to
> try it for size. I've posted it to my "beta" and miscellaneous
> page, http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/. The file to grab is
> SSE.ZIP.
>

. . . . and let you know. thanks.

> --------------
> Carl Distefano
> CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/

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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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