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From: darrylo@hpsrli.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Editing large files
Message-ID: <340008@hpsrli.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 88 18:41:25 GMT
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc, james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

> IN article <340005@hpsrli.HP.COM>, darrylo@hpsrli.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata) wrote:
     [ ... ]
> > -- speaking of which, has anyone managed to redefine the special
> > regular expression characters used by Brief?  Having to use non-standard
> > regular expression characters is a pain in the #$^%?!).
> 
> Well, you can modify the F5 and F6 find and search&replace front ends to
> change the pattern entered from whatever into their scheme: there is a one to
> one correspondence for most of the applicable changes.  This kind of thing
> is the reason so much of Brief is in the macros you have source for...
> -- 
> James R. Van Artsdalen    ...!uunet!utastro!bigtex!james     "Live Free or Die"
> Home: 512-346-2444 Work: 328-0282; 110 Wild Basin Rd. Ste #230, Austin TX 78746

     Duhhh -- you're right.  I use GNU Emacs (but NOT on a PC), which has got
to be an order of magnitude more powerful than Brief, and I'm amazed that I
didn't think of that.

     You wouldn't, by any chance, have something to do with Ultima, would you?
:-)  Just curious.

     -- Darryl Okahata
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