On 04/01/2018 03:13 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote:
You're not understanding. More specifically, you're considering exactly
and only one of three cases that I identified, for which case I
noted that
there were no problem.
Daniel,
That's probably because I've no idea what you consider to be a
'complex'
replacement. Are you comparing emac's M-% for a plain text replacement
and
MSC-% for a regex replacement to a LyX simple and complex replacment?
Rich
It really doesn't matter what particular complex edits I have in mind.
It is easy to recognize that some complex edits cannot practicably
be made using the replacement feature.
For example, a user might have a bunch of citations a work by Sraffa
(ugh!), each citation by section number, and be told by a Chi-Town
journal to replace each of these with a reference by page number. (A
stupid edit, because the Indian edition has pagination different from
the English and American editions; but Chi-Town gonna Chi Chi Chi.) So
it's natural to search for “Sraffa” and then to edit the goddamn'd
section number. It would be possible but pretty stupid to do all this
editing by way of the replacement field. (It would also be possible to
effect these edits with some large regular expression, but only a
lunatic or someone with too much free time would do that.)
That example _shouldn't_ have helped. The problem was already
_clearly_ described in general form, and experience with other
editors, which indeed restore focus to the primary text pane, should
have made the process familiar.
