Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > I am sitting here before the German translation of my Postfix book and will > rip out vi in a minute to search for a text string in order to replace it with > <sometag>string</sometag>. > > Ideally I would be able to do that with XXE. That would really ease my life a > lot.
The possibility to record a macro-command and to replay it, has been created to do that (among many other things). This facility is found in XXE V2.11 released today. Procedure: [1] Tools|Record Macro|Start [2] Use the Search tool to search "string". Once found stop the search by clicking on button "Stop" in the Search tool. [3] Use the Edit tool to convert selected "string" to <sometag>. [4] Tools|Record Macro|Stop [5] Tools|Record Macro|Replay as many times as needed (or until the search step fails). After some thinking, we have found that implementing a general purpose Record Macro facility was the best way to support all sorts of advanced search/replace tasks. --- PS: I CC-ed the support list because your request feature is for us the opportunity to tell other users about the new Record Macro facility.
