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RE: Search/Replace Func Characters?



Title: RE: Search/Replace Func Characters?

>Brian:

>> Unfortunately Robert, I've never loaded or used the U2 files...
>> so I can't decode your macro.

>Robert:

>Ok, let's see -- think think think -- what to do?  Hey, I've got it!  Install
>U2!  That will work.

And of course you're right. But...the way I use Xy is very different from most everybody who uses the U2. Almost everything I do is related to file conversion and clean-up, and the copy editing I do doesn't take much in the way of them fancy-pants word-processing tricks you city folk like so much. The truth is, I keep looking into Xy4 but I keep not finding a good reason to put up with the things about it that annoy me. Xy3 is bare-bones, uncluttered, and exactly what I need.

And there's enough of a learning curve for U2 (I mean, what the heck does "helpkey" mean, and decode is easy enough to say but...) that going through the process in order to decode a macro...well, it just hasn't been an incentive yet. Maybe I give it a try for fun though.


>XS means eXtractString.  It's a parsing mechanism, for tearing strings apart into left$s, mid$s, and right$s.
>Consult the manual for more.
>It's one of the most fundamental XPL tools.

There's a HUGE amount of Xy that I've never used.

>What version of Xy3 do you use?

3.55


-B.H.