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| From | Marion <marion@facts.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.editors |
| Subject | Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) |
| Date | 2025-01-22 19:54 +0000 |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:13:54 -0000 (UTC), Kenny McCormack wrote :
>>This is a strange question from someone who was elsethread advocating
>>an open, flexible editor interface (as Emacs or Vim have).
>
> I think whoever posted the story about the guys in the photo editing group
> hit the nail directly on the head.
Are you referring to a thread in this newsgroup perhaps?
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/thread.php?group=alt.comp.os.windows-10>
Perhaps this specific thread maybe?
*How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?*
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=84218&group=alt.comp.os.windows-10#84218>
The original non-sidetracked goal was resolved by Herbert in this post:
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=84219&group=alt.comp.os.windows-10#84219>
Where that solution was further improved upon in this (& other) posts:
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=84220&group=alt.comp.os.windows-10#84220>
Which, generalized for any editor, is the following pseudocode example:
a. mozilla-based-browser.exe about:config
b. view_source.editor.external (change from the default of false to true)
c. view_source.editor.path C:\path\to\your\favorite\text\editor.exe
d. mozilla-based-browser.exe file:///C:/sys/bookmarks.html
e. Control+u
The proposed solution happened to use Firefox & the Windows gvim editor.
a. firefox.exe about:config
b. view_source.editor.external (change from the default of false to true)
c. view_source.editor.path C:\programs\editors\text\gvim.exe
d. firefox.exe file:///C:/sys/bookmarks.html
e. Control+u
But, later on, someone had asked about why anyone would want to use gVim.
I think the problem was that the person asking that didn't know about
regular expressions & hence he deprecated the use of regexp in editors.
That same person who deprecated regexp also said he had no idea why a
template would be useful when someone munches HTML code into useful links.
Later on, that same person who deprecated regexp also claimed to not
be aware that Notepad++ has wondrously powerful "xml" macro capabilities.
[C:\Program Files\Editors\Text\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml]
And, that same person advocated writing VBS code instead of simply using
the macros inherent in powerful editors such as Notepad, Emacs & Vim.
Yet, the most complex code that person could write, according to his own
claims, was a VBS script that did a simple word count (which, we all know,
can be accomplished with the wc macro in Vim, e.g., g+<control+G>.
The problem, as I saw it anyway, was that person stated that everything
he didn't know, he disliked - yet everything that he knew - he liked.
Which is fine - as everyone is welcome to their own opinions - but
his opinions were based only on what he did not know already existed.
Hence, he understood not a word of what the solution turned out to be.
An example that person was unable to understand was this one of changing
the "foo" & "bar" in the HTML template to something useful. For example:
CHANGE THIS TEMPLATE FROM:
<HR>
<A HREF=https://www.amazon.com/s?k=foo+bar>(amazon) foo bar</A><P>
<A HREF=https://www.amazon.com/vine/vine-items?search=foo%20bar>(vine) foo bar</A><P>
<HR>
CHANGE THAT TEMPLATE TO:
<HR>
<A HREF=https://www.amazon.com/s?k=windows+pc>(amazon) windows pc</A><P>
<A HREF=https://www.amazon.com/vine/vine-items?search=windows%20pc>(vine) windows pc</A><P>
<HR>
USING A REGEXP MACRO BELOW - which is described fully so as to add
value to every post so that everyone always benefits from every body.
qq
:%s/foo/windows/g<CR>
:%s/bar/pc/g<CR>
q
That efficient set of character inputs is fully described below:
qq: Starts recording a macro into register "q".
:%s/foo/windows/g<CR>: This line performs a global substitution.
% selects the entire file.
s initiates the substitution command.
foo is the pattern to be searched for.
windows is the replacement string.
/g replaces all occurrences of the pattern on the current line.
<CR> presses the Enter key to execute the command.
:%s/bar/pc/g<CR>: This line performs another global substitution,
replacing all instances of "bar" with "pc"
on the current line.
q: Stops recording the macro.
Once you've defined the macro, to use the macro:
Place the cursor on the line you want to modify.
Press @q to execute the recorded macro on the current line.
This macro will efficiently replace all occurrences of "foo"
with "windows" and "bar" with "pc" within the current line.
Note:
This macro only affects the current line.
To apply the macro to multiple lines, you can use visual mode
to select the desired lines and then execute the macro.
In summary, a working solution was proposed, but some people
didn't understand it (which is fine). One open item was there
doesn't seem to be a suitable platform-independent HTML editor.
Is there?
--
The goal is always to be purposefully helpful in adding value!
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Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-01-15 11:42 +0100
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-15 11:28 +0000
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Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-15 18:10 +0000
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Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-17 18:37 +0000
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Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-18 20:55 +0000
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Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-19 03:56 +0100
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Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-19 21:27 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2025-01-22 17:57 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-19 08:18 -0500
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-20 01:13 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-20 01:15 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-20 14:00 +0100
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-21 04:48 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-21 13:28 +0100
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-21 08:39 -0500
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-21 14:00 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-22 00:09 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-18 16:56 -0500
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-01-18 21:57 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-18 17:40 -0500
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-18 23:33 +0100
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-18 20:54 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-18 20:50 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-18 17:36 -0500
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-19 00:46 +0000
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Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-19 21:16 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-20 03:04 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-20 09:26 +0100
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-21 04:47 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-21 07:41 +0100
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-22 00:11 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-22 11:48 +0100
Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-01-22 13:13 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-22 19:54 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-22 22:25 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-23 04:29 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-23 08:20 -0500
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-23 21:02 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-23 22:18 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-01-24 00:25 +0100
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-23 23:35 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-23 23:48 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-24 00:48 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-24 11:30 +0100
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-01-24 00:49 +0100
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-24 10:40 +0100
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-24 18:03 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-24 18:14 +0000
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-25 14:22 +0100
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-25 14:39 +0100
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-25 17:48 +0100
Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-23 23:46 +0000
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-16 15:05 +0100
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-16 11:08 -0500
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-16 23:03 +0100
Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-24 01:07 +0000
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