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- Edith Manual Search 11th June 1994
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- One dialog takes care of both SEARCH and REPLACE. The
- SEARCH dialog is opened from the SEARCH menu or by
- pressing ^F.
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- To SEARCH for a string in a text, type it in the
- TARGET EXPRESSION field, and click the SEARCH button.
- Search for the next string by selecting SEARCH NEXT in
- the SEARCH menu or by pressing ^G.
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- When ALL is selected, all strings are marked at once.
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- To SEARCH and REPLACE a set of strings, type the
- replacement in the SUBSTITUTE EXPRESSION field. Now
- you can either search and replace targets one by one or
- replace them all at once; to do the first, repeatedly
- select SEARCH or press ^G and then select REPLACE or
- press ^H.
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- To REPLACE ALL targets AT ONCE, select the ALL switch,
- select SEARCH, and then select REPLACE.
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- ** Click on the TARGET EXPRESSION field to enter a pull
- down menu allowing you to choose between four pairs
- of target/substitute expression pairs.
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- ** The search and replace system makes use of the
- cut/paste text buffer to store the replacement
- strings.
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- The following OPTIONS are available for search and
- replace:
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- ∙ Wildcards on/off. When wildcards are ON, some
- characters in the target and substitute
- expressions have a special meaning. See below.
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- ∙ As word. When this is selected, the strings are
- only marked when they constitute a full word.
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- ∙ Up. When this switch is selected, strings are
- found in upward direction.
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- ∙ Case sensitive. When this switch is NOT
- selected, strings are also marked when they
- differ in case to the original target expression.
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- ∙ All Expressions. When this switch is selected,
- all four target/substitute pairs are used for
- searching and replacement.
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- WILDCARDS are used to search for strings which are not
- literally the same, but match some general pattern with
- a number of holes. The following characters have a
- special meaning in the target and substitute
- expressions when WILDCARDS are enabled:
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- TARGET EXPRESSION
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- ?, ! Match any character
- *, & Match any string or zero or more characters
- [a-z] Match any of a-z
- [^a-z] Match any character not in a-z
- ^ Match the beginning of a line
- $ Match the end of a line
- \c Match the character c literally
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- \( string \) Marks part of the string for use in
- the replacement.
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- SUBSTITUTE EXPRESSION
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- ? The character matched by ?
- * The string matched by *
- ! The character matched by ! or by [a-z], [^a-z]
- & The string matched by & or the part enclosed
- by \( and \).
- \c The character c literally.
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- Edith Manual Search 11th June 1994
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