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From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: REx's in WP (was: Aztec C/Shell DOES HAVE a 'vi' editor)
Message-ID: <553@uva.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 17:14:50 GMT
References: <1988Oct10.145745.2790@mntgfx.mentor.com> <967@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <5606@hoptoad.uucp> <10402@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <15424@agat <6412@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <4704@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <6455@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <6455@ihlpf.ATT.COM> straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.) writes:
>||I've never seen anything that comes even close to UNIX(R)'s regular
>||expression matching when it comes to complex search and replace algorithms.
>|
>|  As has been posted several times....  MPW has all of UNIX's regualr
>|expression matching & more.  From talking to people that have used UNIX for 
>
>What I would like to see is this sort of capability on a WORD PROCESSOR.

Nisus has a superset of Unix's grep plus an interface on top of it included.
And it still is an easy to use word processor.  Look for it soon (I hope)!

-cbb, Nisus development team
/* Paragon was my employer...I don't speak for them...blah blah... */
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS