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From: jhf@lanl.gov (Joseph Fasel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Aztec C/Shell DOES HAVE a 'vi' editor
Summary: regular expressions and parentheses
Message-ID: <4861@lanl.gov>
Date: 14 Oct 88 14:24:20 GMT
References: <1988Oct10.145745.2790@mntgfx.mentor.com> <967@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <933@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <933@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>, gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
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> >In article <15424@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu 
> >	(Steve Goldfield) writes:
> >>What Mac Editor has the complex search/replace patterns
> >>available in vi (by far its best feature)?
> 
> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) replies:
> >MPW Shell has this stuff.
> 
> I could never figure out how to get MPW to find matching parentheses.  I can
> do this with Emacs regular expressions.

How can any kind of regular expression possibly find matching parentheses?
No parenthesis language is regular.

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