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From: teener@apple.com (Michael Teener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word Processing under Mac vs Unix (was Nisus)
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Date: 3 Jul 90 16:38:55 GMT
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References:<3918@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> <5309@stpstn.UUCP>

Although I generally agree with the comments about search and replace for 
most personal computer word processors, in article <5309@stpstn.UUCP> 
cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) writes:
> I shudder to think of how "the rest of us" are replacing repeated spaces
> with tabs in order to load stock prices and the like into spreadsheets.

This is really not much of a problem in MS Word, just select the stock 
price columns and change whitespace (^w) with tabs (^t).  This use of 
special "^" characters is, however, about the only thing that Word's 
search and replace does that is not strictly vanilla.

By the way, someone really needs to come up with a better model than even 
the Unix-ish regular expression.  I have a hell of a time explaining this 
stuff to someone who has successfully avoiding ex/vi/grep arcana.

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