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Does it allow you to e.g. find all lines with a specific pattern and delete these lines + the following x lines after each pattern?EditPad Pro, unbeatable search-and-replace regex engine
Yes. Want the code?highend wrote:Does it allow you to e.g. find all lines with a specific pattern and delete these lines + the following x lines after each pattern?
A basic example of what I mean is taking something like:Twisten wrote:Well if you mean that you can include line breaks in a regular expression so that an expression can match against more than one line, you can do that in ultraedit.
And using a find of:a
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(a)\n\n([bd])\n\n(c)Code: Select all
$2-$1-$3\nIt would also be great if it supported wildcards following a line break (i.e. "\n+"), which TextPad currently does not do.b-a-c
d-a-c
Same hereTheQwerty wrote:Admittedly, it's been a few years since I compared editors but last time the most interesting candidate was HippoEdit. However lately Sublime Text has been drawing my attention more.
.Indeed, I wasn't ready for another program with as many betas as XY.Jibz wrote:… where I've started playing with Sublime Text 2. I also went past HippoEdit which had some really awesome features, but felt a bit like it was drowning in betas.
The other pain point I felt was the difficulty in creating new/custom syntax highlighters. They offer much more capabilities than TextPad here, but this comes with more complicated definitions and unfortunately both allowed their documentation to lag too far behind to be of any real use.Yes, ultraedit can handle this, it can't usualy match \n+ buy you could try and force it with [~]+ which will match repeated line breaks but might not fit exactly your criteria.TheQwerty wrote:A basic example of what I mean is taking something like:Twisten wrote:Well if you mean that you can include line breaks in a regular expression so that an expression can match against more than one line, you can do that in ultraedit.And using a find of:a
b
c
a
d
cand replacing it withCode: Select all
(a)\n\n([bd])\n\n(c)resulting in:Code: Select all
$2-$1-$3\nIt would also be great if it supported wildcards following a line break (i.e. "\n+"), which TextPad currently does not do.b-a-c
d-a-c
I would hope UltraEdit handles it with their hefty price tag, but I haven't been able to swallow that - especially since my interests have grown to prefer cross-platform support, and $160!?
Admittedly, it's been a few years since I compared editors but last time the most interesting candidate was HippoEdit. However lately Sublime Text has been drawing my attention more.
And truthfully, I think by the time I find a cross-platform option I love I'll be looking for a cloud app with offline support instead.