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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac to UN*X and back
Message-ID: <1990Jan13.035952.3534@intercon.com>
Date: 13 Jan 90 03:59:52 GMT
References: <16880003@hpisod2.HP.COM>
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Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
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In article <16880003@hpisod2.HP.COM>, jem@hpisod2.HP.COM (Jim McCauley) writes:
> I'd prefer a Mac editor that can:
>       * work with large files (up to 500K-600K)
>       * allow regular-expression search/replace capability
>       * understand Unix file conventions (Control-J is the line-end
> 	character, for example)
>       * display all characters (including control characters) in
> 	some literal form

The MPW Shell editor will do all of these except treating ^J as
an end-of-line character.  Your could build a couple little filters
to translate between formats, but it won't do it automatically.
Also, the regular expression syntax is different from UNIX.  It's
basically equivalent in power to, say, the GNU Emacs regular expression
syntax, but all the special characters are different.  This can take
a little while to get used to...

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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