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Problems with regexps

Edward K. Ream edreamleo at charter.net
Fri Nov 7 20:20:26 EST 2003 
I've just added script-based find-changed commands to Leo 4.1 beta 1.  So
Leo can execute a script to find the next match, and optionally executes a
script to do the replacement.  This gives Leo the full power of languages
like Icon or Snobol, using the plain Python language.  There is a dead
simple way for the find script to communicate with the change script, and
for the find script to continue or not in the case of the Find All or Change
All commands.

BTW, scripts could search anywhere, not just in a Leo outline.   For
example, the find script could pull in the found text from any file to any
Leo node (creating an outline node if you like).  Etc.

I'm very excited about this new feature.  At long last we are not limited to
non-extensible, wimpy tools like re.  Fully interactive if you want; fully
batch if you want.  Undo is easy, etc.  The sky is the limit, and when you
are done, you will be able to understand the scripts you wrote.  End of re.
Yeah!

Edward
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