[1] From: Ed Haupt <haupt@email.njin.net> (5)
Subject: Re: 10.0689 wordprocessor with grep
[2] From: "John G. Drummond" <drummojg@jmu.edu> (29)
Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep?
[3] From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> (15)
Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep?
[4] From: Kathleen Margaret Lant (16)
<klant@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu>
Subject: grep
[5] From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" (13)
<brians@mail.wsu.edu>
Subject: GREP in Word Processing
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 97 12:57:17 EST
From: Ed Haupt <haupt@email.njin.net>
Subject: Re: 10.0689 wordprocessor with grep
The find command under the directory manager [F5] of Word Perfect 5.1
has a lot of Grep-like properties. For instance you can search all the
documents in the directory for files which have a particular word.
I am slowly learning about 6.0, so I don't know if it has more features.
Ed Haupt
Montclair State Univ.
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:47:26 -0500 ()
From: "John G. Drummond" <drummojg@jmu.edu>
Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep?
Office '97 for Windows is going to have (has? I'm not sure if
it's out yet) some sort of user-transparent internet access; one will
be able to do a "Save As" to an FTP site or a shell account that has
FTP capabilities, etc. It appears that the future of cumputing is in
this vein -- the user will eventually have no reason to distinguish
between local and remote files. Great for some users, I suppose, but
I don't think it's going to be fun for us tech support folks. :)
I know that most word processors have a "find" or "find & replace"
function, but I doubt any have a utility that can do everything that
grep can do (especially not grep foo.* blah | sort > filename).
However (and believe me, normally I wouldn't go 'round touting
Microsoft), Word 7 supports Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) --
so, if you have no luck finding another solution, you can write one.
-john drummond
-=-=-=-
John G. Drummond James Madison University
drummojg@jmu.edu English Department x7074
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/ ILR HelpDesk x3555
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Date: 11 Feb 97 09:53:16 -0500
From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep?
Sounds like you need a text editor, not a word processor. On the Mac side
there's BBEdit which allows you to run GREP searches on directories within
you hard drive and can download and edit files directly from an ftp server.
I don't think that it can search files on a remote directory. Check out
the BareBones web site at <http://www.barebones.com/> for more info on this
text editor.
I'll let others speak for other platforms, though EMACS on the Unix side
strikes me as possibly fitting the bill.
Sincerely,
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Gary W. Shawver
E-Mail <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca>
W3 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/>
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 06:40:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Kathleen Margaret Lant <klant@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu>
Subject: grep
I am not sure whether this will help with the grep problem or not, but
there is a very easy way to achieve the effect of a Unix grep search in
Windows 95:
1. Open Windows Explorer.
2. Select "Find" from the "Tools" dropdown menu.
3. From the Find menu, select "Files or Folders."
4. Click the "Advanced" tab.
5. Select the file type in which you want the system to search for the
selected text (Word for Window, for example). You can search all files if
you like.
6. Indicate the text you want the system to search for.
And you have a grep search on your documents.
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:35:16 -0500 (EST)
From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu>
Subject: GREP in Word Processing
Not a full-fledged word processor, but a marvelous text processor, BBEdit
for the Mac includes GREP searching capabilities as well as the most
elaborate and flexible search-and-replace capabilities I know of--and it's
lightning-fast. The freeware version, BBEdit Lite, has GREP but lacks some
of the other bells and whistles. It's the preferred tool of advanced
HTML-smiths and is well worth the modest price (site licenses available at
deep discounts from Bare Bones Software). It is particularly handy for
managing large Web sites.
However, if you need to retain advanced word processing features while
using GREP you may find it won't work.
Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
brians@wsu.edu
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians