Re: Minitrue

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

Actually, you can search and replace through multiple files in a directory
with XyWrite alone in 3.5x.

I created a key to launch the search command, e.g.

SE C:\1998\*.*/searchtext/

That poorly-documented command will search through the entire 1998
directory, and open a file that contains "searchtext".

Then, after I've read or edited the file, I press Ctr-N to go to the next
file. (That's because I restored the Enter Next (EN) function to Ctrl-N.)

I've also written macros to search and replace through directories
automatically. I call *.*, search and replace, and Enter Next to call the
next file.

But given the enthusiasm here over MiniTrue, I downloaded it and I'll play
around with it.


At 07:35 AM 10/12/98 -0400, Bob Zimmerman wrote:
>
>On 9/29/98 Russ Urquhart wrote:
>>Here is the minitrue home page and the URL. Hope that this helps!
>>http://www.pagesz.net/~minitrue/
>
>All I can say is "Wow!" Thanks for letting us know about this excellent
>search and replace program. I use XY 3.55+ and was always frustrated that I
>had no way of making global search and replacements across multiple files.
>Minitrue gives me ability, from a single keystroke within Xywrite,
>functioning just as if it were part of XY.


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