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  2. From: vladimir@Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir Ivanovic)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Need a text manipulation tool / programming language.
  5. Date: 22 Nov 92 13:51:32
  6. Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  7. Lines: 15
  8. Message-ID: <VLADIMIR.92Nov22135132@cocteau.Eng.Sun.COM>
  9. References: <1992Nov21.235606.1497@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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  11. In-reply-to: felciano@summit.stanford.edu's message of Sat, 21 Nov 92 23:56:06 GMT
  12. X-Md4-Signature: 8289eca3e08added8090dba92ce8fd88
  13.  
  14. Try Emacs.  It's a text editor, has built-ins for text manipulation,
  15. commands which understand charaters, words, sentences and regions, and has
  16. an extension language for creating new commands.  Best of all, it has a
  17. learn mode:  you edit one unit and it'll redo those same actions on any
  18. number of other units.
  19.  
  20. It will be slower than say awk.
  21.  
  22. -- Vladimir
  23. --
  24. Vladimir G. Ivanovic                            Sun Microsystems, Inc
  25. (415) 336-2315                                  MTV12-33
  26. vladimir@Eng.Sun.COM                            2550 Garcia Ave.
  27. {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!vladimir         Mountain View, CA 94043-1100
  28.                          Disclaimer: I speak for myself.
  29.