I just read this article on tools and the concept of a "backplane" as an IDE. Read the article and the linked articles inside it to see that this discussion about X v Y is really pointless. :)
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/02/17/whats-your-backplane/ David, I think most common IDEs/editors I can think of will do this type of universal search and replace across selected sets of files or entire directory trees. Most of them allow regex too which ED does not. Cheers, Stuart -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David Jordan Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:41 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Editors and environments we like to use--digression from talking about mvToolBox. How would you do this in a GUI Editor I can use the TCL Editor in universe to change a variable name in a 1,000 programs in a program file by the following process. ED &ED& PROG.CHANGE 2: C/OLD.ATTRIBUTE.NAME/NEW.ATTRIBUTE.NAME/G1000 3: FI 4: LOOP 2 1000 ED BP * .X PROG.CHANGE There are pros and cons of both environments David Jordan _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
