[projectaon] Re: New Order Grand Weaponmastery text
- From: "Sam Seaver" <samseaver@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:43:52 -0500
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Jonathan Blake <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I've implemented this and a couple of Dewi's comments. Most of the last hour
>> has been spent on Books 8-16 replacing the <a ...> footnote markers with
>> <footref ...> elements. That was excruciatingly boring, but at least it now
>> appears to be done.
>
> You might want to find an editor like emacs, vim, notepad++, etc. with
> a regular expression search and replace for occasions like this. Of
> course that requires learning regular expressions, and as the famous
> JWZ quote goes "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I
> know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems.".
I was just thinking that in emacs, you can use Meta-Shift-5, and
simply replace "<a" with "<footref" and then by pressing 'y' or 'n',
you can replace all the ones you want to. The same can simply be done
with "</a>" and "</footref>".
Its not as cool as a regular expression, but still far quicker...
Sam
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