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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
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Subject: Nisus 3.0 (was: Re: Mac equivalent of "grep" ...)
Keywords: grep nisus 3.0
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Date: 10 Aug 90 13:25:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: jon@weber.ucsd.edu (Jon Matousek)

In article <2713@network.ucsd.edu>, jon@weber (Jon Matousek) writes:
>And, your favorite word processor's GREP facility just got better!
>Nisus 3.0 is out, just in time for MacWorld Boston. GREP combined
>with Nisus 3.0's noncontiguous selection make a powerful searching
>tool even more powerful. Nisus now has a "Find All" command that will
>noncontiguously select all of the matching patterns. You can then apply
>a second GREP pattern to the noncontiguous selections with the
>"Find In Selection" command.

I'm so looking forward to my 3.0 upgrade.  Noncontiguous selection is
a truly useful and innovative new feature.  What a time-saver!
Imagine being able to go through your text highlighting things that
need to be italicized, let's say, and then just giving one menu
command to do it.  Much less tedious than the traditional Mac way of
hightlight, menu, highlight, menu, etc.

>As always, Nisus' GREP allows you to search and replace with any
>combination of character attributes; i.e. font/size/style/user style/color.

Someone mentioned that Nisus doesn't have hierarchical styles.  While
I think that the ability to search and replace styles is great, does
not having hierarchical styles mean that I can't base one style on
another, as I can in Word?

>Nisus' GREP is fast, and searches through open and unopened files.

As always, one of its best features.  

I've been a Nisus convert for almost a year now, and there's no way
I'd go back to Word.  I'm really looking forward to 3.0.

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