OT maybe: Looking for a tool or . . .?

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:22:20 -0800, Patton Echols wrote:

>> In Emacs:
>>
>> Bold:
>>
>> Alt-x replace-regex
>> <b>.*?</b> RETURN
>> RETURN
>>
>> Italics:
>>
>> Alt-x replace-regex
>> <i>\(.*?\)</i> RETURN
>> \1 RETURN
>>
>> If you have questions, you could reply, or try the
>> help-gnu-emacs at gnu.org list
>> (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs)
>>
>> Matthew Flaschen
>>
>>   
> 
> Ok, this looks like something I can figure out.  I appreciate it.
> 
> This is the sort of thing that I need to do in different forms 
> repeatedly.  And part of the attraction of linux is the ability to do 
> this stuff,

Ofcourse, in any editor that has search&replace, on _any_ OS, you can
replace "<b>" with "" and "</b>" with "", and so on.
And Emacs is ported to many systems as well, so I certainly wouldn't call
this a Linux-attraction. :-)

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