Hi, Mark, Good to see you here. So many of us have been waiting for some kind of word suggesting that there will be a way past NW6 before Apple kills Classic. The response I see here and in the forums shows that hardcore Nisus users can't make much use of Express compared to what we have had. Please give us some kind of hint.
Rick Gordon ------------------ On 8/14/03 at 12:50 PM -0700, Mark Hurvitz wrote in a message entitled "Re: Perl macros": > >In Classic NW macro, this task could have been done most easily, with a >>simple two line macro: >>Find In Selection ":d+" "g-St" >>Subscript > >Wasn't that beautiful?! At 5:03 PM -0700 7/28/03, Rick Gordon wrote: >I just joined this list, so I am curious if there has been some discussion regarding >the loss of functionality with the Find/Replace (I use PowerFind Pro pretty much all >the time), and with macros. I haven't yet gotten any sense as to whether Nisus >development is intending to bring back this functionality or not. I know without what >it had, the new version is useless to me. > >I've been using NW since about 1993, and it has been the ONLY program that I could >use for certain aspects of coded text processing. But this involves Find/Replace >functions that recognize more than just ASCII text; BBEdit Lite can do that. I need >to be able to build macros that involve PowerFind Pro searches of any combination of >formatted, colored, inverted, boxed text where all of those attributes can be >distinguish alone or in particular combination with other attributes. > >I also need to set and jump to markers; they're gone, too. > >And I very much also need a Macroize function. Yes, I know that wasn't there in 1993, >but it's greatly increased the ease of use. Perl macros won't cut it -- even if I >wanted to get fluent in Perl (which is a joke if you're planning on having a useful >and user-friendly application). As I said above, I need to recognize all of those >other attributes, and I want a syntax that mirrors the syntax of the Find/Replace >function. And I don't want every macro to have to be a separate file. -- ___________________________________________________ RICK GORDON EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING ___________________________________________________ EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: 415-663-8652 WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
