On 1 Feb 2016, at 18:50, Scott Barman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please bear with me. I am very olde school. I learned Unix text editing with > ed on Version 7! With no apologies to emacs fans, I am a vi user. After years > of hearing people extol the virtues of BBEdit especially for editing web > pages, I finally bought a copy. Now I am trying to learn without reverting > back to vi. > > 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/^.*$/<h3>&<\/h3>
BBEdit has exactly what you're after:
Search > Find…
That will bring up a dialog window with "Find", "Replace", and a bunch of
options underneath. If you tick the "Grep" option, you'll be able to do
something like this for the above:
Find: ^.*$
Replace: <h3>\1</h3>
You'll also note that BBEdit will try to syntax colour the regex. If you don't
see colouring, it's probably because "Grep" is not ticked. The "case sensitive"
option is the same as the "i" modifier. "Wrap around" will change the default
behaviour ("find stuff between cursor and end of file") to wrap-around
behaviour ("find stuff between cursor and end of file, then start back at the
beginning of the file"). "Selected text only" means the search/replace will
only happen inside the currently selected block of text.
I haven't experimented with "entire word" yet.
Alex
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