Looking for a good text editor

[Dave Pink]

I have 65 text files in one folder. They all have different file names
of course, and one word of text in each file is unique to that file;
but other than that they are all identical text files.

I need a text editor that will allow me to make changes to all 65
files simultaneously. For example, if I wanted to add the same lines
of text to all 65 files, I want to do so in one fell swoop, without
having to open each and every file and manually add the lines of text
65 times.

Anyone know any good software that'll give me this capability? Needs
to work on Windows NT and 2000. Thanks in advance.

[Dale Ross]

Sounds like the job of scripting. Have looked into using VBScript for this
task?

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[Debra Earle]

Dave Pink wrote:

Try UltraEdit, which is great for this sort of thing:

http://www.ultraedit.com

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[Mark H. Wood]

sed, from the Unix realm, is great for stuff like that. I think
there's one as part of the DJGPP project. Or you could pick up the
Cygwin package -- there's sure to be a sed port in there.

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

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[Chris Janus]

Check out BK ReplaceEm.

http://www.orbit.org/replace/

It's worked well for me.

Chris Janus

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[Nicole Hamilton]

"Mark H. Wood" <mw...@mhw.ULib.IUPUI.Edu> wrote:
> sed, from the Unix realm, is great for stuff like that.

A decent shell to iterate over the list of files would also help and for
that, may I suggest my Hamilton C shell, which includes both a great shell
and sed (and lots of other cool stuff). More info and a free demo version
are available on my website at http://www.hamiltonlabs.com/cshell.htm. I am
the author, so if there are any questions, just let me know.

Regards,
Nicki Hamilton

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Hamilton Laboratories, 61 Fairbank Road, Sudbury, MA 01776-1620, USA

[Robert A. Matern]

And, of course, Emacs with Tags Mode does this kinda thing quite well...

I use GNU Emacs under Cygwin on WindowsNT & 2K; this allows me to use
the same editor environment I use for Unix.

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[Rob Stow]

> "Dave Pink" <tron...@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:fa516b59.0110...@posting.google.com...
> > I have 65 text files in one folder. They all have different file names
> > of course, and one word of text in each file is unique to that file;
> > but other than that they are all identical text files.
> >
> > I need a text editor that will allow me to make changes to all 65
> > files simultaneously. For example, if I wanted to add the same lines
> > of text to all 65 files, I want to do so in one fell swoop, without
> > having to open each and every file and manually add the lines of text
> > 65 times.
> >
> > Anyone know any good software that'll give me this capability? Needs
> > to work on Windows NT and 2000. Thanks in advance.

Sounds like you need something that lets you create a template, then
use the template to regenerate your 65 files whenever you modify the
template.

This is an easy little programming task - have someone on your staff
create a little applet that will take a template from one text file
and a set of data from a CSV or flat text file and merge the two
to generate your 65 files. Hell, send me $100 and I'll do it for you.

This can also be done from Excel if you are very familiar with
Excel macro programming. Put your Template in one cell, your
data in a table, then use an Excel macro to generate the text
files you need. In my case it would be much faster to write a
little Delphi program than to figure out how to do it with Excel,
but I know it _can_ be done with Excel simply because I have
used an Excel spreadsheet created by someone else that did this.

Rob

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[Jim Cochrane]

Or the combination of bash and ex, also part of cygwin, would probably be more
flexible than sed.

For example, to insert "A new line" after line 6 in all files:

for f in *
do
echo '6a
A new line
.
wq'|ex $f
done

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