Text editing question

Here's a question which sounds completely off topic, but actually
isn't--does anyone know how to do a global find and swap exchanging a
return character for a space character followed by a return character?
The question arises from my attempts to expeditiosly edit the new
Scala 2.2 seq-from-midi files into files Maple can read. I can get
abiword to see the return characters, but can't figure out how to
replace them.

>Here's a question which sounds completely off topic, but actually
>isn't--does anyone know how to do a global find and swap exchanging
>a return character for a space character followed by a return
>character?

On what platform? You'll need an escape sequence for either your
text editor or scripting language.

>The question arises from my attempts to expeditiosly edit the new
>Scala 2.2 seq-from-midi files into files Maple can read.

That's the 2nd time you've mentioned version 2.2. Latest version I
know of is 2.1a.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:

> >Here's a question which sounds completely off topic, but actually
> >isn't--does anyone know how to do a global find and swap exchanging
> >a return character for a space character followed by a return
> >character?
>
> On what platform?

W98 or Linux 8.0.

You'll need an escape sequence for either your
> text editor or scripting language.

"\" often works, but I need a text editor for which it works, and
what I need to stick it in front of.

> >The question arises from my attempts to expeditiosly edit the new
> >Scala 2.2 seq-from-midi files into files Maple can read.
>
> That's the 2nd time you've mentioned version 2.2. Latest version I
> know of is 2.1a.

See Manuel's announcement on MMM of the unstable beta-decaying 2.2.

>See Manuel's announcement on MMM of the unstable beta-decaying 2.2.

I think that's 2.1a.

...

Oh, he says it will eventually be released as 2.2.

-C.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...> wrote:

> Here's a question which sounds completely off topic, but actually
> isn't--does anyone know how to do a global find and swap exchanging
a
> return character for a space character followed by a return
character?

I found an old crippleware called fdrepl95 which does this. No doubt
there are better options, but at least it works.