> On Feb 1, 2016, at 2:50 AM, Scott Barman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In vi (and ed), I could search for a pattern, then on every line found, run a
> substitute command using a different pattern.
>
> For example, if I want to find every line with a colon and change it so that
> the line is a level 3 header, in ed or vi I could do: g/:/s/^.*$/<h3>&<\/h3>
For your specific problem:
Cmd-F (or Search > Find…).
In the Find box: ^.*:.*$
In the Replace box: <h3>&</h3>
Click Replace All
I don’t know if there is a solution for the more general case of “For every
line containing X do Y” without falling back to AppleScript. It is something I
have wanted to do occasionally, and I think I usually end up with some
workaround. The Text > Process Lines Containing command lets you select lines
based on a regular expression, but the only processing it can do is to delete
matching or non-matching lines and/or copy them to the clipboard or to a new
document.
Regards,
Neil Faiman
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