Re: XyIII+ in WinXP

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote:
While you're at it, you could also change those numbers to
autoincrementing ones, so that if you decided to move any of those
paragraphs to another place in the list, the number would automatically
change. Thus:

ci /N)/≪c1≫./
Natch, but that defeats the point of my example: if you want to go to
≪c1≫) you don't need a wildcard search and replace! Your example works
even in III+.
But the need for wildcard search and replace is real. Here's another
example. Suppose you want to change all MoDe commands to some non-Xy
format, say from the guillemets to simple angle brackets, without the MD.
In IV you can do:

ci /≪mdW≫//
Re notation: here the double angle brackets mean the guillemets and the
capital W means the "wild string" wildcard. So this one command does all
the (sample of) changes below:

≪MDUL≫ becomes 

≪MDBU≫ becomes 
≪MD+BO≫ becomes <+BO>
≪MD-IT≫ becomes <-IT>
and so on--all changed with one command. It occurs to me that you could do
this in two commands in III+:
ci /≪MD//
ci /≫/>/
--but that runs the risk of changing some closing guillemets that didn't
come after ≪MD but after say ≪IP5,0

Anyway, these are only *examples*.





Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx